Towards measuring environmental income through a refined United Nations SEEA EA: Application to publicly-owned, protected, pine-forest-farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain

Autor: Campos Palacín, Pablo, Mesa, Bruno, Álvarez, Alejandro, Oviedo Pro, José Luis, Caparrós Gass, Alejandro
Přispěvatelé: European Commission, Oviedo Pro, José Luis, Caparrós Gass, Alejandro
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Ecological Economics, 2022, Vol.201 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Ecological economics
ISSN: 0921-8009
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107570
Popis: Este artículo está sujeto a una licencia CC BY 4.0
The United Nations monetary System of Environmental-Economic Accounting—Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) does not recommend the measurement of the environmental incomes of single products from an ecosystem accounting area. The objective of this paper is to uncover the accounting period environmental income given by the environmental operating return embedded in single biological-based products consumed, plus their environmental asset gain, by applying the authors' refined extended monetary accounts of the SEEA EA. The standard System of National Accounts (SNA) and the refined SEEA EA frameworks are applied to 12 protected publicly-owned mixed-pine-forest-farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain. The comparison of results shows that the net value added for the pine-forest farms estimated under the refined SEEA EA is four times greater than that of the standard SNA, indicating the importance of uncovering the exchange values provided by the operating returns on manufactured capitals and environmental assets of products consumed without market prices. After omitting the carbon ecosystem service to avoid double counting, the ecosystem services and changes in the environmental assets made up 68% and 32%, respectively, of the aggregate environmental income from the 11 environmental assets valued in the pine-forest-farm case studies in 2010.
The authors thank the Agency for Water and Environment of the Regional Government of Andalusia for the financial and field work support for the REnta y CApital de los Montes de ANdalucía (RECAMAN) project (Contract NET 165602), the Valoraciones de servicios y activos de AMenidades privadas de fincas SILvopastorales (VAMSIL) project of CSIC (ref.: 201810E036) and the Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting (MAIA) project of EU call H2020-SC5-2018-1 (Grant Agreement Nr. 817527).
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