UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES EMBEDDED IN ENVIRONMENTAL INCOMES: TESTING EXPERIMENTAL EXTENDED ACCOUNTS IN DEHESAS OF HOLM OAK WOODLANDS, ANDALUSIA-SPAIN

Pablo Campos, Alejandro Álvarez, Bruno Mesa, Jose Oviedo, Paola Ovando and Alejandro Caparrós

No 1903, Working Papers from Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP), CSIC

Abstract: The ultimate goal of scholars and governmental institutions is to demonstrate nature in standard statistics, leading government agendas to the development of environmental-economic accounts which uncover hidden actual ecosystem services embedded in goods and services consumed by humans. In regards to physical and economic sustainable natural resource use, which lies beyond actual ecosystem services estimation, the potential sustainable ecosystem services indicator is a useful tool for nature conservation´s design and implementation. This indicator is defined as the environmental-economic reference for sustainable natural resource use. This research proposes that the potential sustainable ecosystem service indicator is the environmental income as measured by the extended accounts in this research. Our objective here is to compare the extended and the refined standard accounting frameworks’ estimates ecosystem services and environmental incomes, applying producer, basic and social prices. The accounting frameworks are applied in case studies of sixteen large dehesas of holm oak woodlands in Andalusia, Spain. We measure seven farmers and six government dehesas’ individual ecosystem services and environmental incomes. The dehesas’ refined standard accounts ecosystem services and environmental incomes results at basic prices are, respectively, 0.4 and 0.1 times of those of the values measured by the extended accounts at social prices.

Keywords: Intermediate services; total income; net value added; environmental asset; change of environmental net worth; standard national accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09
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