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May 2000
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Korea Environment Institute (KEI), food development, marine waste

This working paper, presented at the first sub regional training workshop on environment statistics in Bangkok in 2000, synthesizes information from:

  • The Pilot Compilation of Environmental-Economic Accounts in Korea by the Korea Environment Institute (KEI);
  • The Pilot Compilation of Environmental-Economic Accounts in the Korean Agricultural Sector by the Korea Rural Economic Institute; and
  • General remarks on Korea Environmental Economic Accounting (KEEA) by the Korea National Statistic Office.
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Republic of Korea
Themes: 
Indicators and Measurement, Natural Capital
Key search terms: 
natural capital, economic valuation of natural capital

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