Land and Ecosystem Services
Session 6
Chair: Mark Eigenraam
Land Accounts
• General feedback on style and level of
information in the note
• Specific comments on the content related to
land accounts
Land
• All land
– Rivers, lakes, wetland, flood zones, etc
• Compilation boundaries
– Water shed, drainage basin, SA1, provincial
government, etc
– Ownership
– Activities
• Proposed core tables – land use and cover
Land accounts
• Degradation
– Soil – Indictor 11 – erosion
• Production of accounts
– 10 steps – comments
• Cadastral data?
– Ownership and privacy
Biodiversity
• Indices
• Species focus
– Flora
• Link to land accounts?
• Modifiable area unit Problem (Openshaw
1984)
• Linking to policy – 7 ideas
Carbon
• The carbon cycle and dealing with residuals
• Carbon quality and movement between pools
• London Group
– Other work?
– Other information sources?
– Scope of physical accounts?