Cursos

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Santander

Lugar de impartición

Santander - Península de la Magdalena (Infantes)

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Secretaría

ORGANIZADO EN COLABORACIÓN CON

Descripción de la actividad

The course will focus on recent advances in ecosystem accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services and their assets. Instructors come both from Academia and from Governmental Statistical Offices.

The 2010 Nagoya conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed that nations will promote the reform of the system of national accounts to integrate in national accounting indicators the contribution of ecosystems services and their assets to income and wealth. This was ratified in Rio +20 in 2012. Following these recommendations, the European Commission urged in 2011 member countries to develop before 2020 experimental applications of integrated national ecosystem accounts and/or linked satellite ecosystem accounts.

The methodological work lead by the United Nations Statistical Division on ecosystem accounts has produced several publications that are the current guidelines for the applications developed throughout the world. The most relevant for this course is the System of Environmental Economic Accounting-Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA). The main applications to date of ecosystem accounting proposals are those of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia and, at regional scale, Andalusia (Spain). Applications to other European Union countries are ongoing within the framework of the “Knowledge innovation project on an integrated system of natural capital and ecosystem services accounting in the EU (KIP-INCA)” coordinated by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

The SEEA-EEA is an ongoing process, until the expected government regulation in 2020, and the course will discuss potential future developments of this system. The SEEA-EEA integrates bio-economic modeling of population dynamics of local, national and global biodiversity. The scientific knowledge of intra- and inter-ecosystem impacts for the stability of natural productivity at any scale is a key issue, along with the socio-ecological approach and the use of economic accounts for ecosystem management. The best alternative to integration commercial values with economic estimations of ecosystems services is an important issue to be settled. The positive and negative impacts of natural migration and human management at the national and supranational scales are also pending challenges. The course will also present the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) developments of environmental accounts under the current European Union Regulation.

This course is aimed at postgraduate students or undergraduates in their last year, researchers and managers interested in the sustainable management of the natural environment by integrating economic-environmental values of natural resources into national accounts.