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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2017, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (8): 2739-2748.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201708.012

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Progress on the studies of ecosystem accounting

SHI Wei1*, LI Jin-chang2   

  1. 1School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
    2Party Committee, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Received:2016-12-20 Published:2017-08-18
  • Contact: * E-mail: shi-w-2008@163.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the 2016 Annual Statistical Research Project of Zhejiang Province, the First Class Discipline Project of Zhejiang Province (Class A) (Zhejiang Gongshang University Statistics), and the Project of Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences of Universities of Zhejiang Province (Statistics), China (JYTtjrc20151301)

Abstract: Ecosystem accounting aims at integrating the value and amount of ecosystem services and ecosystem assets into the system of national accounts and integrating ecosystem protection targets into social and economic decision-making, in order to realize the coordinated development of ecologi-cal environment and economic society. This paper reviewed the fundamental problems of ecosystem accounting, designing of ecosystem accounts, and valuation method. First, through the interpretation of ecosystem services and its classification, this paper illustrated the process of ecosystem based on the perspective of final ecosystem service, and extended the production boundary of System of National Accounts (SNA). Second, this paper designed ecosystem asset account, ecosystem production account, and supply-use account, and then compared the different impacts of the production scale extension methods on the production accounts. Third, this paper distinguished the valuation method based on exchange value from the one based on welfare economic theory, and pointed out that accounting methods based on the exchange value were consistent with SNA. Finally, it summarized the deficiencies in current researches, and prospects for future study.