Bridging the Gap Between National and Ecosystem Accounting Application in Andalusian Forests, Spain

Pablo Campos, Alejandro Caparrós, Jose Oviedo, Paola Ovando, Begoña Álvarez-Farizo, Luis Díaz-Balteiro, Juan Carranza, Santiago Beguería, Mario Díaz, A. Casimiro Herruzo, Fernando Martínez-Peña, Mario Soliño (), Alejandro Álvarez, María Martínez-Jauregui, María Pasalodos-Tato, Pablo de Frutos, Jorge Aldea, Eloy Almazán, Elena D. Concepción, Bruno Mesa, Carlos Romero, Roberto Serrano-Notivoli, Cristina Fernández, Jerónimo Torres-Porras and Gregorio Montero

Ecological Economics, 2019, vol. 157, issue C, 218-236

Abstract: National accounting either ignores or fails to give due values to the ecosystem services, products, incomes and environmental assets of a country. To overcome these shortcomings, we apply spatially-explicit extended accounts that incorporate a novel environmental income indicator, which we test in the forests of Andalusia (Spain). Extended accounts incorporate nine farmer activities (timber, cork, firewood, nuts, livestock grazing, conservation forestry, hunting, residential services and private amenity) and seven government activities (fire services, free access recreation, free access mushroom, carbon, landscape conservation, threatened biodiversity and water yield). To make sure the valuation remains consistent with standard accounts, we simulate exchange values for non-market final forest product consumption in order to measure individual ecosystem services and environmental income indicators. Manufactured capital and environmental assets are also integrated. When comparing extended to standard accounts, our results are 3.6 times higher for gross value added. These differences are explained primarily by the omission in the standard accounts of carbon activities and undervaluation of private amenity, free access recreation, landscape and threatened biodiversity ecosystem services. Extended accounts measure a value of Andalusian forest ecosystem services 5.4 times higher than that measured using the valuation criteria of standard accounts.

Keywords: Standard accounts; Extended accounts; Ecosystem services; Environmental income; Simulated exchange values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.017

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