Trees at work : economic accounting for forest ecosystem services in the U.S. South / Erin O. Sills [and five others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sills, Erin O., author.

Contributor:

United States. Forest Service. Southern Research Station, issuing body.

Series:

General technical report SRS ; 226.

General technical report SRS ; 226

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Economic aspects--Southern States.

Forests and forestry.

Forest products--Economic aspects--Southern States.

Forest products.

Forest products--Economic aspects.

Forests and forestry--Economic aspects.

Southern States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 103 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Other Title:

Economic accounting for forest ecosystem services in the U.S. South

Place of Publication:

[Asheville, N.C.] : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 2017.

Summary:

"Southern forests provide a variety of critical ecosystem services, from purification of water and air to recreational opportunities for millions of people. Because many of these services are public goods with no observable market value, they are not fully accounted for in land use and policy decisions. There have been several efforts to remedy this by estimating the total value of forests in different States, with each effort including different bundles of ecosystem services and using different valuation methodologies. In this guide, we propose a more consistent and theoretically sound approach to 1) quantifying annual flows of ecosystem services, 2) developing a spatial catalog of the marginal values of changes in those flows, and 3) accounting for the total value of ecosystem services lost or gained as a result of changes in forest ecosystems. Four chapterson cultural services, watershed services, air quality and carbon, and provisioning of non-timber forest productsprovide guidance on best practices for quantifying and estimating the values of these services as provided by forests. Expert panels were convened to write each chapter. The guide as a whole was developed with input from the Southern Group of State Foresters and stakeholder meetings held in 2014 and 2015."

Contents:

Introduction

Forest ecosystem services: cultural values

Forest ecosystem services: water resources

Forest ecosystem services: carbon and air quality

Forest ecosystem services: provisioning of non-timber forest products

Conclusion.

Notes:

"November 2017."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SRS, viewed Feb. 21, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Sills, Erin O. Trees at work

OCLC:

1023811689