What Are Ecosystem Services? The Need for Standardized Environmental Accounting Units
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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.
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- Artigo com revisão pelos pares e teses universitárias
- Economia, Comércio e Medidas de Incentivo
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