Implementing Environmental Accounts: Case Studies from Eastern and Southern Africa

ISBN-13: 9789400796744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str.

Rashid M. Hassan;Eric D. Mungatana

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Contents:

1 Natural Capital, Total Wealth and Sustainable Development in Namibia
Glenn-Marie Lange
2 Wildlife Accounts: A Multi-Sectoral Analysis in Namibia
J.I. Barnes, O. Nhuleipo, A.C. Baker, P.I. Muteyauli and V. Shigwedh
3 Accounting for Mineral Resources in Tanzania: Data Challenges and Implications for Resource Management Policy
Eric Mungatana
4 Fisheries Resource Accounts for the Maputo Coastal Districts of Mozambique
Hermínio Lima A. Tembe, Cora Ziegler-Bohr and Eric Mungatana
5 Forest Resource Accounts for Ethiopia
Sisay Nune, Menale Kassie and Eric Mungatana
6 Contribution of Uganda’s Forestry Sub-Sector to the National Economy: Natural Resource Accounting Approach
Moses Masiga, Eugene Muramira and Ronald Kaggwa
7 Accounting for the Value of Ecosystem Assets and their Services
Karl-Göran Mäler, Sara Aniyar and Åsa Jansson
8 Valuing Regulating and Supporting Ecosystem Services of the Sub-Tropical Estuaries of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa
Jackie Crafford and Rashid Hassan
Index

Blurb

This report on natural resource and environmental accounting in one of the world’s least developed zones is predicated on a wealth approach to sustainable development that recognizes the need for information on all of a nation’s assets, including, for example, potable water, as well as how these might change or evolve over time. Under these criteria, a nation that manages its natural wealth intelligently may actually increase its net natural assets. Namibia’s wildlife reserves have an ongoing and evolving value far in excess of their commodity value as a source of meat, or even of ivory. Thus, this volume assesses how effectively polities in southern and eastern Africa have implemented the more complex set of metrics that make up the UN’s Integrated System of Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA), which replaced the former System of National Accounts—a measure of production alone.

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.