Natural Capital and Land Use Accounting

The content of the course includes the following:

• Introduction to the concepts of natural capital accounting – Principles of ecosystem accounting

• Linking land use changes to natural capital accounts.

• Representation of the biophysical environment in terms of distinct spatial areas – identification of ecosystem types.

• The System of Environmental - Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA).

• Biophysical and monetary accounting methods for drafting natural capital accounts.

• Ecosystem extent accounts.

• Ecosystems condition accounts.

• Ecosystem services accounts.

• Integrating natural capital accounts into decision-making for sustainable rural management.

• Natural capital accounting – Common Agricultural Policy – Biodiversity Strategy.

• Natural capital accounting – European Green Deal – EU Nature restoration Law.