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The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy

dc.contributorScience Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.contributor.otherUN-REDDen_US
dc.contributor.otherKenya Forest Serviceen_US
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-30T13:33:34Z
dc.date.available2019-07-30T13:33:34Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3273-3en_US
dc.identifier.otherDEW/1541/NAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/29024
dc.formatTexten_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe montane forests of Kenya, better known as Kenya’s “Water Towers”, produce direct economic value for its citizens. This value accrues not only from the production of various timber- and non-timber forest products, but also from a range of regulating ecosystem services that provide an insurance value to several key economic sectors. There is also a secondary or indirect multiplier effect associated with the direct economic value of the Water Towers. This report estimates these economic values, by means of best international analytical practices and environmental and economic evidence from Kenya, and shows that montane forests have consistently been undervalued in conventional national accounting.en_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectforesten_US
dc.subjectforest producten_US
dc.subjectecosystem serviceen_US
dc.subjecteconomyen_US
dc.subjecteconomic developmenten_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.titleThe Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economyen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 8 - Good Jobs and Economic Growthen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Landen_US
wd.tagsBiodiversityen_US
wd.tagsLanden_US
wd.tagsNatural Resourcesen_US
wd.tagsSustainable Developmenten_US
wd.topicsNature Actionen_US
wd.topicsNature Actionen_US
wd.topicsFinance and Economic Transformationsen_US
wd.identifier.pagesnumber53 pagesen_US


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