Accounting for ecosystem services as a way to understand the requirements for sustainable development.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment documented the importance of ecosystem services. It is therefore important that these services are included in our economic accounts (Standard National Accounts), as long as we believe that these accounts should tell us something about our wellbeing. This requires measures of the ecosystem assets and their accounting prices. This article discusses how the concept of inclusive wealth can be exploited for creating such accounts.
Mäler
Karl-Göran
KG
Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden. karl@beijer.kva.se
Aniyar
Sara
S
Jansson
Asa
A
D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics*; D004467:Economics; D017753:Ecosystem; D018803:Models, Economic