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Defining Ecosystem Assets for Natural Capital Accounting.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
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]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem
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
doaj   +4 more sources

Ecosystem accounting in the Nordic countries

open access: yes, 2022
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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Monetary valuation for ecosystem services and assets for ecosystem accounting | System of Environmental Economic Accounting

open access: yes, 2022
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
core   +2 more sources

Introducing a global planetary ecosystem accounting in the wake of the Amazon Forest fires [PDF]

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
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
doaj   +2 more sources

Ecosystem Accounting for Marine-Based Tourism provided by Posidonia oceanica in Italy [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem
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
doaj   +5 more sources

Compiling preliminary SEEA Ecosystem Accounts for the OSPAR regional sea: experimental findings and lessons learned [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2023
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Accounting of marine and coastal ecosystems at the Ramsar Site, Estuarine Delta System of the Magdalena River, Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2023
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Towards ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in flows and potential supply of ecosystem services

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Ecosystem services contributing to local economic sectors – conceptual framework of linking ecosystem services, benefits and economic sectors

open access: yesEconomics and Environment, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

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