integrating the economic and ecosystem approaches to the environment in the revised seea...
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The SEEA-2003 The SEEA-2003 is a multipurpose system to organize information. It uses a system approach of stocks and flows The SEEA-2003 has been perceived as measuring: –The interactions between the economy and the environment e.g the flow accounts ……but the SEEA-2003 does more. It also measures –The interactions within the environment/ecosystems (natural processes) e.g. changes in stocks due to human activity and natural causes –The state of the environment, including quality e.g. asset accounts – land use/land cover accounts, water asset accounts, forest accountsTRANSCRIPT
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Integrating the economic and ecosystem approaches to the
environment in the revised SEEA
Alessandra AlfieriUnited Nations Statistics Division
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Outline
• Economic and ecosystem approaches• Can the revised SEEA present both
approaches?– Volume 1, the standard economic approach– Volume 2, best practices the ecosystem
approach
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The SEEA-2003
• The SEEA-2003 is a multipurpose system to organize information. It uses a system approach of stocks and flows
• The SEEA-2003 has been perceived as measuring:– The interactions between the economy and the environment
• e.g the flow accounts
……but the SEEA-2003 does more. It also measures – The interactions within the environment/ecosystems (natural
processes)• e.g. changes in stocks due to human activity and natural causes
– The state of the environment, including quality• e.g. asset accounts – land use/land cover accounts, water asset
accounts, forest accounts
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The economic approach to the environment
Satellite SEEA
EnvironmentEconomy
Data Producers
NSOs, Environment agencies and others
Data users
e.g. Finance Ministry Environment agencies/scientists
SNA
SEEA-2003
Returns
Material inputs
Flow
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Cha
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in s
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A
B
A and B are establishments/enterprises and households
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The ecosystem approach to the environment
EnvironmentEconomy
Data Producers
NSOs, Environment agencies and others
Data users
e.g. Finance Ministry Environment agencies/scientists
SNA
Impacts
Services provided
Flow
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eco
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Nat
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X and Yare land cover units
X
Y
S E E A
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Bringing economic and ecosystem approaches together in the revised SEEA
• Objectives• Terminology• Classifications• Statistical units• Spatial and temporal disaggregation • Data producers and users
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Objectives
Economic approach• Measure the
interaction between the economy and the environment
Ecosystem approach • Monitor the quality
and health of the environment in its capacity to provide services to humanity
Both objectives are represented in the SEEA and should be clearly stated.
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TerminologyEconomic approach• Material inputs• Products• Residuals
Ecosystem approach • Provisioning services• Regulatory services• Cultural services • Supporting services
The SEEA should be able to bridge between the various terminology used as it did with hydrological terms and definitions in SEEA-Water and IRWS
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ClassificationsEconomic approach• ISIC• CPC• Classification of physical
flows• CEPA/CRUMA
Ecosystem approach • Classification of
ecosystem services– Provisioning services– Regulatory services– Cultural services – Supporting services
Some of these services are already included in the classification of physical flows or other classifications. Can this be done more systematically?
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Statistical unitsEconomic approach• Establishments/• Enterprises• Households• Government
Ecosystem approach • Land cover units
– Water bodies– Savannah– Forest
Economic and statistical units in the environment should be cross-classified.
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Spatial and temporal disaggregation
Economic approach• Nation• Administrative region• Yearly (quarterly)
Ecosystem approach • Land cover units
– River basins– Homogeneous ecosystems
• Frequent data (monthly, weekly daily)
Data at different spatial and temporal references should be collected using definitions concepts and classification that will allow its aggregation. Example of SEEA-Water for river basins
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Data production and useEconomic approach• Surveys/census• Administrative data• Eco-efficiency indicators• Budget allocation• I-O modeling• Researchers and economists• Finance and treasury ministries
Ecosystem approach • Monitoring systems• Tipping points of the
ecosystems• Health of ecosystem • Scientists• Resource managers
Increasingly need information on both the economic aspects of the environment to do policies (see valuation of ecosystem services and damages).
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Way forward
• Revised SEEA to cover both economic and ecosystem approach to the environment– Volume 1, the standard – Economic approach
• Covers all the issue being addressed in the SEEA revision process
– Volume 2, best practices – Ecosystem approach• Covers ecosystem classifications, ecosystem accounts,
valuation of ecosystem services and degradation
– Chapter on the framework (Chapter 2) should embrace both approaches.