Exploring Approaches for Constructing Species Accounts in the Context of the SEEA-EEA
- 14 April 2016
- Steven King, Claire Brown, Mike Harfoot and Lucy Wilson (coordinating authors)
Topic
Ecosystems and biodiversity
Type
Handbooks and guidelines
Copyright Information
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Summary
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has launched an initial step-by-step approach to enable specialist agencies, research institutes and other organisations to develop spatial accounts of species status, an important component of natural capital. This document describes this process of planning and constructing such species accounts at national or sub-national levels. The document builds on a UNEP-WCMC (2015) report on the state of knowledge on biodiversity accounting, produced as an output of a project to advance the SEEA - Experimental Ecosystem Accounting.