Compiling Forest Resource Accounts for Forest Recreation Management

Recently “natural resource accounts” are receiving much attention as a statistical tool to comprehensively understand interaction between economic factors and environmental/natural resources. This article describes an attempt to compile the forest resource accounts， a major element of the natural resource accounts. Some examples of the“satellite accounts” developed by INSEE in France were very usuful in determining the design of the accounts. For the first time in the world，a s et of forest resource accounts for forest recreation management was compiled for Biei town in the Hokkaido region. Some of the expected difficulties in applying the accounts system in Japan include inaccessibility of data on private resort development and difficulties of data collection in large areas