TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic accounting of ethiopian forests
T2 - A natural capital approach
AU - Narita, Daiju
AU - Lemenih, Mulugeta
AU - Shimoda, Yukimi
AU - Ayana, Alemayehu N.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Fumiaki Saso, Tatsuji Nishikawa, Takashi Fujisaki, Wubalem Tadesee Atsushi Tsunekawa, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Ryo Takahashi, Ludwig Siege, Gete Zeleke, Aselefech Abera, Toshikazu Tanaka, Hideaki Kitaki, and Akio Hosono for useful discussions and support on this study. DN acknowledges financial support by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K00677 . We thank the EWCA for the provision of data on Ethiopian natural reserves. All remaining errors are our own.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of economic accounting are not able to assess the country's economic and environmental sustainability in the face of such deforestation problem. In this study, we attempt an economic accounting of Ethiopian forests based on a welfare-economic framework, which assesses changes in the value of forests as natural capital. Our estimates suggest that the recent government re-greening efforts are yet to increase forest assets in the value term, although they have expanded the land areas covered by trees in the country.
AB - Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of economic accounting are not able to assess the country's economic and environmental sustainability in the face of such deforestation problem. In this study, we attempt an economic accounting of Ethiopian forests based on a welfare-economic framework, which assesses changes in the value of forests as natural capital. Our estimates suggest that the recent government re-greening efforts are yet to increase forest assets in the value term, although they have expanded the land areas covered by trees in the country.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Environmental accounting
KW - Forest
KW - Natural capital
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.10.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055551769
SN - 1389-9341
VL - 97
SP - 189
EP - 200
JO - Forest Policy and Economics
JF - Forest Policy and Economics
ER -
