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Defining Ecosystem Assets for Natural Capital Accounting.
In natural capital accounting, ecosystems are assets that provide ecosystem services to people. Assets can be measured using both physical and monetary units.
Lars Hein +5 more
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Marine ecosystem extent and condition pilot accounts for Finland [PDF]
Ecosystem accounting provides a standardised framework for evaluating the economic value of ecosystems to society. Following the international accounting standard, System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA), we present ...
Elina Virtanen +5 more
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Ecosystem accounting in the Nordic countries
In this report, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has mapped the current work on and use of ecosystem accounting in the Nordic countries. Specifically, the report provides an overview of the recent work on ecosystem accounting in each of the ...
Mattsson, Eskil +3 more
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The report is intended to provide a useful starting point with suggestions on valuation methods, examples and references for countries that are undertaking valuation as part of the SEEA EA national implementation.
Edens, Bram +6 more
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Introducing a global planetary ecosystem accounting in the wake of the Amazon Forest fires [PDF]
Since the 19th century, rapid urbanisation coupled with a demographic boom has increased pressures on the global exploitation of natural resources leading to an array of issues at planetary scale.
Zaheer Allam, David S. Jones, Can Biyik
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Ecosystem Accounting for Marine-Based Tourism provided by Posidonia oceanica in Italy [PDF]
This work presents the first ecosystem accounts for Marine-Based Tourism (MBT) in Italy. We develop a methodological approach to connect biophysical and economic information required to fill ecosystem accounting supply and use tables.
Alice Bartolini +6 more
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Compiling preliminary SEEA Ecosystem Accounts for the OSPAR regional sea: experimental findings and lessons learned [PDF]
Ecosystem Accounting provides a framework to measure and value relationships amongst ecosystems, society and the economy. The accounts measure ecosystem extent, condition and services, providing the means to identify and internalise ecological ...
Maria Alarcon Blazquez +3 more
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Accounting of marine and coastal ecosystems at the Ramsar Site, Estuarine Delta System of the Magdalena River, Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia [PDF]
The Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta Ramsar Site (CGSM) is the most important Caribbean estuarine wetland in Colombia. The site represents a strategically important ecosystem supporting the national and local economy.
Camilo Gomez Cardona +7 more
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Rwanda, a small but rapidly developing central African nation, has undertaken development of natural capital accounts to better inform its economic development through the World Bank's Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES ...
Kenneth J. Bagstad +13 more
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The paper introduces the principles of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting-Ecosystem Accounting. The aim of the work is to present the application of the conceptual framework of linking ecosystem services, benefits and economic sectors.
Marta Sylla
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