Income and Ecosystem Service Comparisons of Refined National and Agroforestry Accounting Frameworks: Application to Holm Oak Open Woodlands in Andalusia, Spain
| Autor: | Alejandro Álvarez, Alejandro Caparrós, Paola Ovando, José L. Oviedo, Bruno Mesa, Pablo Campos |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Junta de Andalucía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), European Commission, Oviedo Pro, José Luis, Caparrós Gass, Alejandro, Ovando Pol, Paola, Oviedo Pro, José Luis [0000-0003-2043-5020], Caparrós Gass, Alejandro [0000-0002-2841-3566], Ovando Pol, Paola [0000-0001-6915-5826] |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Total income
National accounts 0211 other engineering and technologies Ecological threshold Accounting 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Multiple use Environmental asset 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Valuation (finance) 2. Zero hunger Agroforestry business.industry Habitat conservation Ecosystem accounting 021107 urban & regional planning Forestry lcsh:QK900-989 Private amenity 15. Life on land 13. Climate action Accounting information system Sustainability lcsh:Plant ecology business Environmental income |
| Zdroj: | Forests Volume 11 Issue 2 Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Forests, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 185 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1999-4907 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/f11020185 |
| Popis: | There is growing consensus regarding the implementation of a new statistical framework for environmental-economic accounting to improve ecosystem related policies. As the standard System of National Accounts (SNA) fails to measure the economic contribution of ecosystems to the total income of individuals, governments recognize the need to expand the standard SNA through the ongoing System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA). Based on the authors&rsquo own data, this study focuses on linking 15 economic activities and 12 ecosystem services for a holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) open woodlands (HOW) ecosystem type in Andalusia, Spain. We emphasize that overcoming the challenges of multiple use is preferable to measuring single ecosystem products for improving habitat conservation policies. The objectives of this paper are to measure and compare the environmental assets, ecosystem services, and incomes at basic and social prices by applying a refined version of the standard System of National Accounts (rSNA) and the authors&rsquo Agroforestry Accounting System (AAS), respectively, to HOW. Considering intermediate products and consumptions of HOW farmer and government activities, we find that the rSNA ecosystem services and environmental incomes at basic prices are 123.3 &euro /ha and &minus 28.0 &euro /ha, respectively, while those of the AAS at social prices are 442.2 &euro /ha and 250.8 &euro /ha. Given advances in non-market valuation techniques, we show that an expanded definition of economic activities can be applied to measure the contribution to total income of managed natural areas taking into account the multiple uses of the ecosystem type. However, HOW sustainability continues to be a challenging issue that requires ecological threshold indicators to be identified, not only because of the economic implications but also because they provide vital information on which to base policy implementation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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