The Explore Regional Wealth Building framework shows how communities can grow durable prosperity by recognizing and investing in all eight forms of capital—individual, intellectual, social, cultural, natural, built, political, and financial—while ensuring that wealth stays rooted locally. By treating development as a system of interdependent assets, it encourages regions to identify underutilized resources, strengthen value chains, and align investments with long-term community benefit rather than short-term extraction. This mirrors Aspen CSG’s asset-based philosophy: rural and regional vitality comes not from importing outside solutions, but from mobilizing and connecting the full range of community assets to build livelihoods that endure across generations.
WEALTH: THE EIGHT CAPITALS
