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WorksheetsIntroduction to SEEA 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
It is a conceptual framework for understanding the interactions between the economy and the environment, and for describing stocks and changes of environmental assets.
Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics
Flow Accounts
System of National Accounts
System of Environmental- Economic Accounting
TRUE or FALSE: Environmental Statistics are often developed to respond to a particular question or problem. This is called ad hoc data collection and statisticians find it difficult to be certain that all important data are collected, and not always easy to see the complete picture
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: SEEA Identifies the socio-economic drivers, pressures, impacts and responses that are not affecting the environment.
TRUE
FALSE
This SEEA-CF Accounting Structure records both the opening and closing stock of assets and the changes over the accounting period.
Flow Accounts
Activity/purpose Accounts
Asset Accounts
These are supply and use tables for products, natural inputs and residuals generated by economic activities; either physical (e.g. m3 of wastewater) and/or monetary values (e.g. cost of wastewater treatment).
Activity/purpose Accounts
Flow Accounts
National Accounts
Stock Accounts
TRUE or FALSE: SEEA helps to organize data, enabling gaps and deficiencies to be identified and through the application of inconsistent standards that allow comparisons over time and between different areas.
TRUE
FALSE
In what year was the SEEA Central Framework adopted as an international Standard?
2000
2003
2007
2012
This was a worldwide initiative wherein SEEA has been expected to be a key component of the measurement framework of the new biodiversity targets that was expected to be adopted in the late 2020.
Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the AICHI Targets
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Beyond GDP initiative
TRUE or FALSE: The SEEA – Ecosystem Accounting examines the relationship between flows of ecosystem services and changing condition – essentially analysis in volume terms.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: The SEEA applies the accounting concepts, structures, rules and principles of the SNA to the environmental information which is generally consistent with the SNA.
TRUE
FALSE
