European Forest Accounts for Germany -Quality of data bases and accounting methods

摘要

The Brundtlandt report from 1987, "Our Common Future", emphasized the need of respecting the restrictions of environmental capacities in a growing economy in order to overcome world crises (WCED, 1987). As a result, the implementation of a coherent system of integrated economic-environmental accounts into national accounts was later postulated in the Agenda 21 of the United Nations (UN, 1992). This quantification of inter-dependencies of economic activities and natural resources on a macroeconomic level and of value changes of natural assets is regarded as a vital first step of the necessary integration of sustainability criteria into economic management. In 1993, the United Nations introduced the "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)"as a guideline for the implementation of environmental accounting systems worldwide (UN, 1993). To date, many industrialized countries, including the EU Member States, have implemented economic-environmental accounting as an extension of their nationalaccounting (Dieter, 2017).