Guidebook on Ecosystem Accounting

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.95 Biological resources
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244178
• Chủ đề: 1. ECONOMIC GROWTH; 2. ECOSYSTEM; 3. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSETS; 4. GROWTH ACCOUNTING; 5. NATURAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTING

Tóm tắt

 Southern Palawan is one of the two test sites in the Philippines for the wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) project. Southern Palawan has a significant remaining forest cover including mangroves, extensive coral reefs, and fishing grounds. Challenges in natural resource management in Southern Palawan include: (i) the increasing conversion of forest lands for plantation development and shifting cultivation
  (ii) intensive mineral extension
  (iii) illegal timber logging and hunting
  and (iv) destruction of coastal ecosystem and overfishing. A comprehensive understanding of the natural capital of Southern Palawan is important to manage the competing interests on natural resources and to support economic development.