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<title>Standardized construction of ecosystem service accounting and its embedding into national accounting: From fuzzy valuation to precision measurement</title>
<authors>
<author>WenJun Zhang</author>
</authors>
<affiliations>
<affiliation>
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
</affiliation>
</affiliations>
<journal>Computational Ecology and Software</journal>
<issn>ISSN 2220-721X</issn>
<homepage>http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/online-version.asp</homepage>
<year>2027</year>
<volume>17</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<startpage>1</startpage>
<endpage>29</endpage>
<publisher>International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences</publisher>
<location>Hong Kong</location>
<date>
<received>19 May 2026</received>
<accepted>20 June 2026</accepted>
<published>1 March 2027</published>
</date>
<keywords>
<keyword>Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP)</keyword>
<keyword>measurability</keyword>
<keyword>standardized accounting</keyword>
<keyword>uncertainty analysis</keyword>
<keyword>national accounting</keyword>
<keyword>ecological compensation</keyword>
</keywords>
<abstract>
Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) accounting is increasingly mandated for carbon trading, watershed eco-compensation and performance audits of natural resource management, however reported values for the same region often diverge by several orders of magnitude, eroding policy credibility. This discrepancy originates in a chain of measurement discontinuities that separate ecological processes from final monetary estimates. The present study argues that the core challenge is not data scarcity but the absence of a measurability-oriented accounting paradigm. I propose a standardized construction that organizes the accounting pipeline into a sequence of process modelling, data assimilation, physically verifiable service flows and stepwise calibration. The framework introduces a formal hierarchy of measurability for ecosystem services, modular accounting protocols with built-in uncertainty propagation, and bridging rules that connect GEP satellite accounts with the System of National Accounts. The standardized protocol will reduce inter-operator variance to within a policy-tolerable range while producing defendable interval estimates validated against gauge observations. The results provide a route toward converting GEP from a fuzzy negotiation token into a measured, auditable quantity suitable for carbon neutrality accounting and ecological compensation.
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<url>http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2027-17(1)/standardized-construction-of-ecosystem-service-accounting.pdf</url>
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