Bram Edens

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the valuation of ecosystem services and ecosystem assets can be undertaken in an integrated national accounting setting, and the main implications of an accounting approach are discussed including the need to distinguish benefits from services, the need for valuation methods that exclude consumer surplus and the importance of aligning measures of income and degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, monetary ecosystem accounting is proposed to provide a better understanding of ecosystem contributions to the economy in a spatially explicit way, by measuring the monetary value of ecosystem services using exchange values consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA).

TL;DR: This paper argues that several additional conceptualisations of ecosystem assets are needed to understand ecosystems as assets, in support of ecosystem assessments, ecosystem accounting and ecosystem management, and contributes to the development of measurement frameworks for natural capital to support environmental accounting and other assessment frameworks.

TL;DR: A range of recent studies have tested the various elements of ecosystem accounting, and an initial guideline for ecosystem accounting has been prepared under auspices of the UN as discussed by the authors, which summarizes the current knowledge of key aspects and analyses its niche in the overall system for environmental-economic accounting and provides three examples of how ecosystem accounting can support sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study for Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, where four provisioning services (timber, palm oil, rattan, and paddy rice), one regulating service (carbon sequestration), and two cultural services (nature recreation, and wildlife habitat) are valued and mapped in a way that allows integration with national accounts.