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Abstract (from ScienceDirect ) Ecosystem accounts, as formalized by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EEA), have been compiled in a number of countries, yet there have been few attempts to develop them for the U.S. We explore the potential for U.S. ecosystem accounting by compiling ecosystem extent, condition, and ecosystem services supply and use accounts for a 10-state region in the Southeast. The pilot accounts address air quality, water quality, biodiversity, carbon storage, recreation, and pollination for selected years from 2001 to 2015. Results illustrate how information from ecosystem accounts can contribute to policy and decision making. Using an example...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Air quality regulation,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data and Information Sharing,
Experimental ecosystem accounting,
National Ecosystem Services Classification System, All tags...
Pollination,
Recreational birding,
Science Tools for Managers,
Southeast CASC,
Southeast CASC,
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts, Fewer tags
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Land plays a critical role in both economic and environmental accounting. As an asset, it occupies a unique position at the intersection of the System of National Accounts (SNA), the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF), and (as a spatial unit) SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA), making land a natural starting point for developing natural capital accounts more generally. We develop a pilot set of national and sub-national land accounts for the United States that are consistent with the SEEA-CF and SNA principles, quantified in both physical and monetary terms. The physical accounts utilize detailed land use (National Land Use Database) and land cover (National Land...
Tags: Big Data,
Forestry,
Geography,
Land Use Change,
Land valuation, All tags...
SEEA-EEA,
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Water Quality,
Water Resources,
block groups,
census tract,
environmental-economic accounting,
hedonic valuation,
land cover,
land use,
natural capital, Fewer tags
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