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Defining Ecosystem Assets for Natural Capital Accounting. [PDF]
PLoS 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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Natural capital accounting perspectives: a pragmatic way forward [PDF]
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2019 Introduction: Recent debates surrounding the application of natural capital accounting (NCA) have produced several approaches to further develop this system, as well as highlighted a number of conceptual and methodological issues that need to be resolved
Kerry Turner +2 more
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Ecosystem natural capital accounting: The landscape approach at a territorial watershed scale [PDF]
Quantitative Plant Biology, 2022 Most approaches to estimate ecological value use monetary valuation. Here, we propose a different framework accounting ecological value in biophysical terms.
Jazmin Argüello +2 more
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Natural capital accounting for better policy. [PDF]
Ambio, 2019 A growing number of countries is setting up natural capital accounts (NCA) based on the system of environmental-economic accounting (SEEA); however, actually using them for better policy making turns out to be complex. This paper synthesises lessons on the institutional mainstreaming of the SEEA and its use in improving policy decisions affecting ...
Ruijs A, Vardon M, Bass S, Ahlroth S.
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Accounting for Natural Capital [PDF]
, 2021 Abstract Chapter 13 sets out the principles that lie behind designing a system of accounting for responsible business. It considers this in the context of accounting for natural capital. It describes how accounting in a mutual context has to be intrinsic in the sense of promoting the enhancement of natural capital for its own ends ...
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Performing Nature’s Valuation: The art of natural capital accounting
Valuation Studies, 2023 Accounting for nature as capital is touted as a promising way of aligning environmental conservation with global capitalism by valuing nature like economic assets.
Sylvain Maechler, Valérie Boisvert
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Mapping Research on Natural Capital Accounting: A Strategic Challenge for Multinational Firms
Administrative SciencesIn the contemporary context, characterized by the paramount importance of sustainability, both governments and companies, particularly multinational enterprises (MNEs), play an important role in fostering and overseeing the transformative processes ...
María-Jose García-López +1 more
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Economic accounting of ethiopian forests: A natural capital approach [PDF]
Forest Policy and Economics, 2018 Abstract Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of economic accounting are not able to assess the country's economic and environmental sustainability in the face of such deforestation problem.
Daiju Narita, Mulugeta Lemenih
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Accounting for ecosystem services and asset value: pilot accounts for KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2022 Pilot monetary ecosystem accounts were compiled for KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, in order to highlight any data, methodological or process issues in their compilation and to contribute towards charting a strategy for ecosystem accounting.
Jane Turpie +3 more
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From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking [PDF]
Nature Sustainability, 2021 Natural capital accounting will confirm what we know — without change, we are headed for environmental disaster resulting from economic growth. We propose a natural capital bank, a new institution to help maintain natural capital adequacy and chart a course to a sustainable future via accounting.
Michael J. Vardon +3 more
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