SEEA-EEA biodiversity account 2006-2013

Windmills behind sanddunes
© Hollandse Hoogte / Clemens Rikken
This report present the experimental biodiversity account for the Netherlands (2006-2013), which is one of the thematic accounts of the SEEA-EEA ecosystem account.

This report presents the first Biodiversity Account for the Netherlands, which is a thematic account in the international SEEA-EEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounts – Experimental Ecosystem Accounts) framework. It’s main use within this framework is to monitor the intrinsic, ecological, quality of the ecosystems providing ecosystem services to society.

The Account collects indicators on two hierarchical levels: ecosystems and species. Trends in biodiversity are reported on two time scales: a longer time scale, mostly 1990 onwards, and a shorter ‘accounting’ period, 2006–2013, which is also the focus of the other current SEEA-EEA accounts for the Netherlands (extent; condition; physical and monetary supply/use of ecosystems).

The SEEA ecosystem accounts are commissioned by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

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