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