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TitleRegional forest resource accounting; a northern Alberta case study
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsHaener, M. K., & Adamowicz W. L.
Volume 30
Issue 2
Pagination 264-273
Publisher Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Place Published Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada
Publication Language en
ISBN Number 0045-5067
KeywordsAboriginal, commercial, crafts, environment, fishing, food gathering, forest, forestry, nonmarket, recreation, resource, subsistence, traditional, traditional medicines, trapping
Abstract

This study outlines the development of a resource accounting system for a region of public forestland in northern Alberta. The purpose of this exercise to provide a clearer picture of the market and nonmarket benefits provided by the forest. The services valued include commercial activities such as forestry, trapping, and fishing plus non-subsistence resource use, and environmental control services (carbon sequestration and biodiversity maintenance). The case study provides the basis for future estimates that when tracked over time can provide information regarding the sustainability of income flows from the region. Many of the complexities of resource accounting at this finer resolution parallel those of resource accounting at the national level. The case study also illustrates constraints and challenges unique to the regional and forestry context.

Topics

Forest resources, traditional land use, forestry, forestland, forest, subsistence, recreation, environment

Locational Keywords

northeastern Alberta

Active Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/93648965

Group

CEMA

Citation Key22163

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