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Lessons Learned in Water Accounting: The fisheries and aquaculture perspective in the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) framework

Year of publication 2016

Pages 82 p.

Author Daniela Ottaviani, Sachiko Tsuji, Cassandra De Young

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical study

ISBN 978-92-5-109319-1

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers

Series number T599

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Water accounting seeks to provide comprehensive, consistent and comparable information related to water for policy- and decision-making to promote a sustainable use of water resources as well as equitable and transparent water governance among water users. One of the frameworks for environmental and economic accounting is constituted by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), which the United Nations Statistical Commission endorsed as an international standard in 2012. SEEA conta ins standard concepts, definitions, classifications, accounting rules and accounting tables for producing internationally comparable statistics. This document examines the accounting tables designed by the SEEA accounting framework and investigates the likelihood of the SEEA reflecting the dependence of the fisheries sector on water resources and accounting for fisheries and aquaculture fisheries water uses and requirements. Through the lens of the fisheries sector, a more in-depth understanding of the SEEA framework for water accounting emerges.

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