Integrated Environmental And Economic Accounting: Framework For A Sna Satellite System

Bartelmus, Peter; Stahmer, Carsten; Tongeren, Jan Van

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“…Any system of economic accounting that omits the environment is thus ignoring a fundamental component of the functioning of the economic system itself. A systematic and structured relationship between the environment and the economy is needed to quantify what the effects of economic activities are on the environment and vice versa, by including the environment in the SNA (Bartelmus et al, 1991, Lange, 1999, Lutz, 1993).…”

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Beyond the economic boundaries to account for ecosystem services

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“…In the traditional national economic accounts, based on the System of National Accounts (SNA), no consideration was given either to environmental damage or to ecosystem assets and services. In the early 1990s the United Nations Statistics Division proposed a System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) (Bartelmus et al, 1991) to fill the information gap in the SNA core accounts with a series of satellite accounts to record environmental data in a consistent way. While at the beginning the 1993 SEEA handbook (UN, 1993) focused on the adjustment of existing macro-indicators, the following SEEA 2003 framework comprised several environmental accounting modules (UNSD et al, 2003).…”

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The theoretical frameworks behind integrated environmental, ecosystem, and economic accounting systems and their classifications

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Rhodes²

2020

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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The integration of ecosystem services and accounting systems can help different stakeholders understand the economic implications of environmental impacts. Any such integration requires clear understanding of how ecosystem services may match and integrate with traditional accounts. The Experimental Ecosystem Accounts (EEA) of the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) is developing quickly with applications at different administrative levels. One emerging feature is lack of agreement on conceptual notions and definitions that could reconcile different approaches. Some basic issues can be developed and solved only once a theoretical basis has been established. Since the first step of any application is to identify which ecosystem services to account for, this paper explores whether and to what extent the theoretical frameworks behind ecosystem services classification systems match the theoretical framework behind the SEEA EEA. This attempt first tackles the conceptual framework on the accounting side, then the conceptual framework on the ecosystem services classification side. Combining the two sides, it is possible to visualize matches or mismatches and to infer a few consequences and implications. Ecosystem services classification systems can guide separation of intra-ecosystem processes from final ecosystem services, and help disentangle ecosystem services from benefits, key requirements for integrating accounts.

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“…The aim of "environmentally" adjusting macroeconomic indicators, by consistently presenting information in accounts from which indicators can be derived (Vardon et al 2018), inspired the pioneers of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) more than 25 years ago. In fact, a group of experts from the United Nations Statistical Office attempted to build an integrated system to calculate a "green gross domestic product (GDP)" by subtracting estimates for depletion and degradation (Bartelmus et al, 1991). The initial version of the SEEA (United Nations 1993) was modified through a continuous enhancement process (United Nations, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, World Bank 2003; United Nations, European Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, World Bank 2014a) and, although correcting macroeconomic indicators was (and is) not the only purpose of the SEEA, it remains among the possibilities offered by this integrated system.…”

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Adjusted macroeconomic indicators to account for ecosystem degradation: an illustrative example

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Marques

2019

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Adjusting macroeconomic indicators to account for the depletion and degradation of natural capital has long been viewed as a way to show the linkages between nature and the economy and foster more sustainable paths of development. Here, we show how the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (EEA) can be used to develop environmentally adjusted macroeconomic indicators. More specifically, we show how an enlargement of the production boundary to include the consideration of ecosystems as institutional units allows the development of a net value added metric that reflects depreciation and degradation of the natural capital assets. This measurement could be useful for policymaking: the linkage of ecosystem services to economic activities allows us to account for loss, repair and substitution of natural capital, and thus helps us to formulate and monitor environmental policies.

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Integrated Environmental And Economic Accounting: Framework For A Sna Satellite System

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Beyond the economic boundaries to account for ecosystem services

Beyond the economic boundaries to account for ecosystem services

The theoretical frameworks behind integrated environmental, ecosystem, and economic accounting systems and their classifications

Adjusted macroeconomic indicators to account for ecosystem degradation: an illustrative example

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