Measuring natural capital: towards accounts for the UK and a basis for improved decision-making
介绍了英国国家统计局与环境、食品和农村事务部自2011年起开展的英国自然资本账户编制项目，阐述了账户构建基础、关键问题及现有成果，并说明其如何为决策提供支持。
The paper describes the ongoing project begun by the UK Office for National Statistics and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2011 to compile comprehensive natural capital accounts for the UK. It describes the basis on which the accounts have been constructed, discusses key issues which have arisen, and presents the results to date. It also sets out how ‘restoration accounts’ for individual projects can not only facilitate conventional cost–benefit analysis but also add to relevant material for decision-makers. More widely, the paper describes how natural capital accounts can underpin well-based decision-making—for example, in implementation of the UK government’s new 25-year plan for the environment. In addition, by providing information on one of the ‘missing capitals’, such accounts can augment analysis of the behaviour of the economy generally.