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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	What Are Ecosystem Services? The Need for Standardized Environmental Accounting Units	
Autores: 	Boyd,   James; Banzhaf,   H. Spencer.	
Data: 	2006-02-13	
Ano: 	2006	
Palavras-chave: 	Environmental accounting; Ecosystem services; Index theory; Nonmarket valuation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q51; Q57; Q58; D6.	
Resumo: 	This paper advocates consistently defined units of account to measure the contributions of nature to human welfare. We argue that such units have to date not been defined by environmental accounting advocates and that the term "ecosystem services" is too ad hoc to be of practical use in welfare accounting. We propose a definition, rooted in economic principles, of ecosystem service units. A goal of these units is comparability with the definition of conventional goods and services found in GDP and the other national accounts. We illustrate our definition of ecological units of account with concrete examples. We also argue that these same units of account provide an architecture for environmental performance measurement by governments, conservancies, and environmental markets.	
Tipo: 	Working or Discussion Paper	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	19946

http://purl.umn.edu/10586	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	Resources for the Future&gt;Discussion Papers

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