Economic and Environmental Accounting for Forestry: Status and Current Efforts

Table of Contents

Economic and Environmental Accounting for Forestry:

Status and Current Efforts

Planning and Statistics Branch

Policy and Planning Division

Forestry Department

August 1998

FOREWORD

Introduction

Background

Objectives

Challenges and Issues in the Forest Policy Dialogue

Policy Uses of Forest Sector National Income Accounts

Forests and Broad Economic Values

Linkages to Other Economic Sectors

Sustainability and Satellite Accounts

Forest Resources in National Accounting

Introduction

SNA and Forestry Sector Accounts

Forest Production in SNA

Extension from SNA to SEEA

Valuation

Augmenting SNA Forest Sector Accounts with Satellite Accounts

Introduction

The Relationship Between SNA and SEEA

Disaggregating and Reformatting National Accounts

Timber Account

Carbon Account

Environmental Impacts on Forests caused by Forest Activities

Impacts on Forests Caused by Non-forest Sector Activities

Environmentally-adjusted Economic Aggregates

Country Experiences: Selected Case Studies, Trials, and Policy Recommendations

Introduction

Eurostat’s Experience with Forest Sector Accounting Trials

Implementation Experiences in Countries assisted by UNSD

A Summary of the FAO/World Bank Commissioned Studies

Broad Patterns in National Income Based Forest Sector Studies

Knowledge Gained from Country Experiences

Policy Recommendations

Training Needs/Capacity Building

References and Citations