Data release for Accounting for Land in the United States: Integrating Physical Land Cover, Land Use, and Monetary Valuation

Land plays a critical role in both economic and environmental accounting. As an asset, it occupies a unique position at the intersection of the System of National Accounts (SNA), the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF), and (as a spatial unit) SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA), making land a natural starting point for developing natural capital accounts more generally. We develop a pilot set of national and sub-national land accounts for the United States that are consistent with the SEEA-CF and SNA principles, quantified in both physical and monetary terms. The physical accounts utilize detailed land use (National Land Use Database) and land cover (National Land...

Tags: Big Data, Forestry, Geography, Land Use Change, Land valuation, All tags... SEEA-EEA, System of Environmental-Economic Accounts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Resources, block groups, census tract, environmental-economic accounting, hedonic valuation, land cover, land use, natural capital, Fewer tags