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Guidebook on Ecosystem Accounting
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- World Bank Group.
- Series:
- Other Environmental Study.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Other Environmental Study
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic Growth.
- Environment.
- Environmental Economics and Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural Resources Management.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic Growth.
- Environment.
- Environmental Economics and Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural Resources Management.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2017.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Southern Palawan is one of the two test sites in the Philippines for the wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) project. Southern Palawan has a significant remaining forest cover including mangroves, extensive coral reefs, and fishing grounds. Challenges in natural resource management in Southern Palawan include: (i) the increasing conversion of forest lands for plantation development and shifting cultivation; (ii) intensive mineral extension; (iii) illegal timber logging and hunting; and (iv) destruction of coastal ecosystem and overfishing. A comprehensive understanding of the natural capital of Southern Palawan is important to manage the competing interests on natural resources and to support economic development.
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