Forest Resource Accounting　　

- The Nordic Experience and Asian Experiments

■ Edited by Koichiro Koike and Shigeaki Fujisaki
■ Price: 5,250yen (w/o tax　5,000yen)
■ B5判
■ 250 pp.
■ Published in 1997
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PREFACE


INTRODUCTION

1. Basic Ideas and Methodologies of an IDE Research Projects on Forest Resource According
Shigeaki Fujisaki

Introduction
1. The IDE Research Project on "Environmental Accounting for Forest and Timber Resources"
2. Description for the Compilation of Mass Balance Table

2. Background and Role of Environmental Resource Accounting
Koichiro Koike

1. Contemporary Society and Economic Accounting
2. The Locus of Fictitious Accounting
3. Linking Up Information on Areas of Concern
4. Consistency Between the Forest Accounting System and the Sector Commodity Table
5. Problems about Estimates from Mass-Balance Tables
6. Natural Resource Accounting as a Form of Communication


PART I. FOREST RESOURCE ACCOUNTING : EXPERIMENTS OF ASIA COUNTERPARTS

3. Environmental Accounting for the Forest and Timber Resources: The Case of the Philippines
Corazon L. Rapera

1. Introduction
2. Methods and Results
3. Discussion and Analysis
4. Summary and Policy Implications
Appendix A
Appendix B Preliminary Sector Commodity Tables
Appendix C Summary of Industry Information (Limited Survey)
Appendix D Information Basis for Pulp and Paper
Appendix E Basic Data on Operations of Sampled Sawmills and Plywood Mills in Mindanao and Luzon, Philippines, 1990
Appendix F Worksheets and Legends for the Sector Commodity and Mass Balance Tables
Appendix G Raw Data for the Mass Balance Table

4. Mass Balance Table of Wood for Indonesia
La Ode Syafiuddin, Supriyanto, Muchlis Husin and Buyung Airlangga

1. Introduction
2. Profile of Forestry in Indonesia
3. The 1995 Special Survey of Wood
4. Flow of Work

5. Environmental and Natural Resource Accounting: The Case of Forest Accounting for Thailand
Damrongsak Chindakul and Associates

Introduction : Thailand Past and Present
1. Forest and Land Use
2. Forest Utilization
3. Wood-Based Industry
4. Economic Accounting and Statistical System in Thailand
5. Forest Accounting System : Forms of Accounts, Conceptual Framework, and Classification in SCT and MBT
6. Survey Results
7. Results and Findings
8. Problems Encountered
9. Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix Example Worksheet for Pulp


PART II. SOME THEORETICAL ISSUES ON ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE ACCOUNTS

6. Forest Resource Accounts and Their Use
Hiromichi Furuido

1. Introduction
2. The Purpose of Drawing Up Accounts
3. The Functions of Accounts
4. Possibilities for the Application of Accounts
5. The Simplest Use of Accounts : Disclosing Stock and Flow
6. Problems in Forest Accounts
7. Summation

7. Handling of Woodland in Natural Resource Accounts
Nobuyuki Yamamoto

1. Introduction
2. General Structure of Forest Woodland Accounts
3. Woodland Microdata Sets
4. Land Cover and Land Use Accounts
5. Significance and Possibilities of Preparing Forest Woodland Accounts in the Developing Countries


PART III. NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUTING : THE NORDIC EXPERIENCE

8. Forest Accounting in Finland
Leo Kolttola and Jukka Muukkonen

Introduction
1. Background
2. Forest Accounting Framework
3. Wood Material Accounting
4. Forest Stock Account and Quality Indicators of Forests
5. Forests and the National Accounts
6. Developing Forest Accounting in Finland
Appendix

9. Why Natural Resource Accounting
Knut H. Alfsen

1. Introduction
2. The Origin and Organization of Natural Resource Accounting in Norway
3. The Structure of the Norwegian Resource Accounts
4. Use of the Natural Resource Accounts for Analysis
5. Discussion and Some Conclusions Based on Norwegian Lessons

SCHEDULE OF THE WORKSHOP
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND CONTRIBUTORS