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SOIL RESOURCES DEPRECIATION AND DEFORESTATION: Philippine case study in resource accounting1
by
Hermina A. Francisco and Marian S. delos Angeles2
Planning and Statistics Branch
Policy and Planning Division
Forestry Department
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
The stages of deforestation and focus of the case studyACCOUNTING FOR THE DEPRECIATION OF SOIL RESOURCES IN THE UPLANDS
Organization of the report
Conceptual framework: the change in asset value approachACCOUNTING FOR DIPTEROCARP FOREST RESOURCES: SUMMARY OF RESULTS
Soil yield loss damage function
Fertilizer equivalent of soil nutrients not available for crop uptake
Discussion of the data analysis
Soil depreciation estimates for upland agricultural lands: economic depreciation and value of lost soil nutrients
Estimates of a yield-soil loss damage function: application of EPIC in an upland town in Luzon
The magnitude of soil depreciation.
Recommendations for future research
General methodology: accounting for and valuing changes in the forest resource stockSUMMARY
Estimates of non-marketed household production based on forest lands
Revenue losses
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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