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Definition: Ecosystem conversion
Category: System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
An ecosystem conversion reflects changes in the extent or composition of an ecosystem asset where there is a shift from one ecosystem type to another that is considered significant or irreversible (e.g., changes owing to deforestation carried out to create agricultural land). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/UN_experimental_ecosystem_accounting_2012_EN.pdf
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United Nations; European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); The World Bank, "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Experimental Ecosystem Accounting", 2014
United Nations; European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); The World Bank, "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Experimental Ecosystem Accounting", 2014
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