Bemühungen um Nachhaltigkeit, Schutzgebietssysteme und Biodiversitätsstrategien haben bislang nicht zu einer Trendumkehr beim Verlust von Arten, intakten Ökosystemen und Landschaftsräumen geführt. Eine wesentliche Ursache wird im strukturellen Versagen ökonomischer Berichterstattung sowohl auf der nationalen als auch der Unternehmensebene gesehen. Im neuen Policy-Brief des BfN wird daher empfohlen, die Wirtschaftsberichterstattung in Deutschland zu erweitern, etwa indem die Erfassung und Bewertung der verschiedenen Ökosysteme, ihrer Ausmaßes und Zustands sowie der Ökosystemleistungen als jährliche Flussgrößen fortgeführt und in die Ökosystemgesamtrechnungen (international: SEEA-EA) integriert werden müssen.
The WISE Water Accounts database contains monthly water accounts for the years 1990-2015 for 117 European river basins extracted from the ECRINS functional river basin districts.
This resource contains the spatial vector data related to the water accounts tabular data. The water accounts tabular data can be accessed here: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/73f4f0ae-aa2c-49fd-9fc4-9feb4792e646
Extensive clarifications on the development of the European water accounts can be found in the following reports published by the European Commission (DG ENV):
"Guidance document on the application of water balances for supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive" (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/blueprint/balances.htm) and
"Water ecosystem accounts reports" (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/blueprint/balances.htm)
Das Projekt "Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting (MAIA)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Wageningen Universiteit durchgeführt.
Das Projekt "Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: From Concepts to Real-World Applications (OPENNESS)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Finnish Environment Institute FEI durchgeführt. Objective: Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where and when the concepts can most effectively be applied to solve problems. To do this, it will work with public and private decision makers and stakeholders to better understand the range of policy and management problems faced in different case study contexts (ranging across locales, sectors, scales and time). OpenNESS will consolidate, refine and develop a range of spatially-explicit methods to identify, quantify and value ecosystem services, and will develop hybrid assessment methods. It will also explore the effectiveness of financial and governance mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services, habitat banking, biodiversity offsetting and land and ecosystem accounting. These types of interventions have potential for sustaining ESS and NC, and for the design of new economic and social investment opportunities. Finally, OpenNESS will assess how current regulatory frameworks and other institutional factors at EU and national levels enable or constrain consideration of ESS and NC, and identify the implications for issues related to well-being, governance and competitiveness. OpenNESS will analyse the knowledge that is needed to define ESS and NC in the legal, administrative and political contexts that are relevant to the EU. The work will deliver a menu of multi-scale solutions to be used in real life situations by stakeholders, practitioners, and decision makers in public and business organizations, by providing new frameworks, data-sets, methods and tools that are fit-for-purpose and sensitive to the plurality of decision-making contexts.
CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data are produced from 1986 for European countries. Altogether four mapping inventories were implemented in this period, producing four status layers (CLC1990, CLC2000, CLC2006, CLC2012) and three CLC-change (CLCC) layers for three periods (1990-2000, 2000-2006, 2006-2012).
To eliminate several inconsistencies from the usage of 100m raster version of original CLC data in the accounting systems at EEA, like Land and Ecosystem Accounting (LEAC), which uses a 1km grid (CUBE) base for calculation, a harmonization method were elaborated for the CLC and CLCC data.
The applied solution for the harmonization combines CLC status and change layers in the 100m raster form in order to create homogeneous quality time series of CLC / CLC-change layers for accounting purposes. The so called "CLC accounting layers" fulfilling the relation: CLC-change = Harmonized CLC_ new status – Harmonized CLC old status. The modification method maximizes compatibility of “backdated” CLC status layers with CLC2012 and each other. However this simple solution causes several issues to be solved: (1) Harmonized CLC layers loose statistical comparability with original CLC layers, because of increased geometry; smaller than 25ha MMU features will appear locally where changes appear. In case of some CLC classes this causes significant differences. (2) “Fake features” are appearing in the backdated CLC status layers due to inconsistencies between CLC-change datasets.
CLC1990 was the first CORINE Land Cover inventory and lasted for 10 years. Photo-Interpretation mostly done on plastic overlay. Field checking was an integral part of the work. The basic parameters of the project (25 ha minimum mapping unit, 100 m minimum mapping width and the European level-3 nomenclature) tested. These are used consistently in all subsequent inventories.
