NCGS Outcome Domains
The twelve domains in which greening produces value: the research frame’s eleven with climate split into resilience and mitigation, because shade and carbon are different evidence at different horizons. Flat; an indicator may carry several. Each domain is aligned by skos:closeMatch to the Sustainable Development Goal targets it serves, using the platform’s SDG target scheme (skos_SDG).
Biodiversity and ecosystem integrity
Includes avoided harm: a decision not to plant on intact indigenous ground is a result in this domain.
Climate mitigation
Carbon stored in surviving trees. Requires its own measurement and horizon; never inferred from survival.
Climate resilience
Adaptation benefits: shade and thermal comfort, wind shelter, water retention, reduced vulnerability of people and places.
Education and stewardship
Equity and inclusion
Food and nutrition
Governance and persistence
Green-space access and amenity
Human well-being and quality of place
Learning and scalability
Understanding and control precede scale: what the phase teaches the next one.