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This session, chaired by Mark Eigenraam, provides feedback and discusses the style, level of information, and content related to land accounts. Topics include compilation boundaries, ownership, activities, degradation indicators, biodiversity indices, carbon quality, and linking to policy.
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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?