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Implementing Environmental Accounts

Case Studies from Eastern and Southern Africa

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Rashid M. Hassan

    1. Centre for Environmental Economics and P, Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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  2. Eric D. Mungatana

    1. Centre for Environmental Economics and P, Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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  • A unique exercise in environmental accounting in eastern and southern Africa, where governments have been slow to implement SEAA standards
  • Provides empirical data for the sustainable value of minerals, forestry, fisheries, and water as well as the indirect (regulating) services of estuaries
  • Explains the links between environment and development and, uniquely, integrates policy applications and compilation methodology of environmental accounting
  • Shows how to synthesize environmental and national accounting data
  • Explains how to deploy environmental accounts as a planning tool

Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 28)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Natural Capital, Total Wealth and Sustainable Development in Namibia

    • Glenn-Marie Lange
    Pages 1-23

  3. Wildlife Accounts: A Multi-sectoral Analysis in Namibia

    • J. I. Barnes, O. Nhuleipo, A. C. Baker, P. I. Muteyauli, V. Shigwedha
    Pages 25-47

  4. Accounting for Mineral Resources in Tanzania: Data Challenges and Implications for Resource Management Policy

    • Eric Mungatana
    Pages 49-69

  5. Fisheries Resource Accounts for the Maputo Coastal Districts of Mozambique

    • Eric Mungatana, Hermínio Lima A. Tembe, Cora Ziegler-Bohr
    Pages 71-101

  6. Forest Resource Accounts for Ethiopia

    • Sisay Nune, Menale Kassie, Eric Mungatana
    Pages 103-142

  7. Contribution of Uganda’s Forestry Sub-sector to the National Economy: Natural Resource Accounting Approach

    • Moses Masiga, Eugene Muramira, Ronald Kaggwa
    Pages 143-185

  8. Accounting for the Value of Ecosystem Assets and Their Services

    • Karl-Göran Mäler, Sara Aniyar, Ã…sa Jansson
    Pages 187-205

  9. Valuing Regulating and Supporting Ecosystem Services of the Subtropical Estuaries of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa

    • Jackie Crafford, Rashid Hassan
    Pages 207-218
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Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa. These case studies experiment with implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan nations known to suffer from the ‘resource curse’: their wealth in resources and commodities has allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this cash has not funded crucial developments in infrastructure or education. What’s more, resource-driven economies are highly vulnerable to commodity price mutability. The new measures of wealth deployed here offer more hope for the future in these countries than they themselves would once have allowed for.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Environmental Economics and P, Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Rashid M. Hassan, Eric D. Mungatana

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