Compiling Forest Resource Accounts for Forest Recreation Management

摘要

Recently “natural resource accounts” are receiving much attention as a statistical toolto comprehensively understand interaction between economic factors andenvironmental/natural resources. This article describes an attempt to compile theforest resource accounts， a major element of the natural resource accounts. Some examplesof the“satellite accounts” developed by INSEE in France were very usuful indetermining the design of the accounts. For the first time in the world，a s et of forestresource accounts for forest recreation management was compiled for Biei town in theHokkaido region. Some of the expected difficulties in applying the accounts system in Japan include inaccessibility of data on private resort development and difficulties ofdata collection in large areas.