Measuring Natural Assets in the Netherlands

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Measuring Natural Assets in the Netherlands
Agenda item 3

• Dirk van den Bergen
• Puck Taminiau - van Veen
• Erik Veldhuizen

UN ECE meeting Session National Accounts and
Natural Assets 27 April 2010
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Natural assets in the SNA

• Land
• Mineral and energy resources
• Non-cultivated biological resources
• Water resources
• Other (radio spectra)

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Land (1)

• Not all land has a value on its own
• Criterion market producers should be willing to
  pay for it under current zoning plans
• ? Excluded Land underlying infrastructure,
  nature

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Land (2)

• Agricultural land
• Actual transaction prices per acre
• Land underlying buildings and dwellings
• Residual tax-value real estate (NA) value
  buildings

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Mineral assets (mainly gas)

• Net present value of future resource rent
• Unit resource rent determined endogenously
• Future extraction based on extraction schemes
• Future real unit resource rent assumed constant

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