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Philippine Asset Accounts
(National Statistical Coordination Board)

ENRA Report No. 2, May 1998
This report was written for the Integrated Environmental Management for Sustainable Development (IEMSD), a programme of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) with funding support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Executive Summary

The Philippines, as a resource dependent country, needs an assessment of its natural resources for the sustainable use of the country’s resources as well as to facilitate the formulation of effective and integrated environmental and economic policies. Thus, the environmental and natural resource accounting system was developed as a satellite account, to the Philippine System of National Accounts (PSNA).

The Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting (ENRA) Subcomponent under the Integrated Environment Management for Sustainable Development (IEMSD) Programme has made possible the establishment of a mechanism for integrating the environmental concerns in planning, policy making and programme implementations. The focus of the ENRA Subprogramme is on the proper valuation of the country’s environmental and natural resources and the piloting of the Philippine System of Integrated Environment and Economic Accounting (PSEEA) using the United Nations SEEA framework.

The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) as the lead agency on ENRA has undertaken several studies on the compilation of ENRA asset accounts. These accounts provide an assessment of the available stock of the natural resources at the beginning and at the end of the year including the changes that affect the stock of these resources. The asset accounts were measured in both physical and monetary terms for renewable resources (forest, fishery and water) and non-renewable resources (minerals and land/soil).

At the national level, the NSCB has prioritized the compilation of the asset accounts of five resources previously mentioned: forest, land/soil, fishery, mineral, and water resources. These resources were prioritized based on their economic importance and environmental significance to the country as well as the availability of data to support the ENRA compilation. The asset accounts cover a six-year period, from 1988-1994, except for land and soil and fishery resources, which covered only until 1993. Due to data limitations, the coverage of the resources were further prioritized to dipterocarp (old growth and second growth), pine (closed and open) and rattan forests resources, marine fishery resources, land and soil resources devoted to agricultural uses, metallic mineral

Philippine Mineral Resources (1541KB)
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