Despite global recognition of the need to protect and preserve Indigenous knowledge and values in the context of land use change, the extent and significance of these values on Indigenous lands remains not well understood and poorly considered in environmental management and planning. Including Indigenous values in the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) may be one way to better ensure that Indigenous values are reflected in government environmental management and planning frameworks and that these frameworks are useful for Indigenous people. To do this, the SEEA must reflect the complex and interconnected values that underpin many Indigenous people’s relationships with land and sea. We use practical examples to illustrate how the SEEA may be adapted to better reflect the cultural values in an Indigenous using an example from Yawuru Country, in northern Australia. We show how extending ecosystem asset accounts to reflect cultural knowledge and combining the SEEA Central Framework with the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting to develop a novel service to ecosystem account better represents the interconnected relationships between Yawuru People, culture, and Country. To consolidate the recognition of Indigenous values in the SEEA, we recommend establishing a working group under the auspices of the United Nations to share experiences and develop a guidebook “SEEA Indigenous values”. This would promote coordinated and corporative work and improve the relevance of the SEEA.

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调整生态系统核算以满足土著生活文化景观的需求：澳大利亚北部亚乌鲁县的案例研究


尽管全球认识到需要在土地利用变化的背景下保护和保存土著知识和价值观，但这些价值观对土著土地的程度和重要性仍然没有得到很好的理解，并且在环境管理和规划中也没有得到充分考虑。将土著价值观纳入环境经济核算体系（SEEA）可能是更好地确保土著价值观反映在政府环境管理和规划框架中并且这些框架对土著人民有用的一种方法。为此，SEEA 必须反映支撑许多原住民与陆地和海洋关系的复杂且相互关联的价值观。我们使用澳大利亚北部亚乌鲁县的实际例子来说明如何调整 SEEA 以更好地反映原住民的文化价值观。我们展示了如何扩展生态系统资产账户以反映文化知识，以及如何将 SEEA 中央框架与 SEEA 生态系统核算相结合，为生态系统账户开发一种新颖的服务，更好地代表 Yawuru 人民、文化和国家之间的相互关联的关系。为巩固SEEA对土著价值观的认可，我们建议在联合国主持下成立一个工作组，分享经验并制定《SEEA土著价值观》指南。这将促进协调一致的工作并提高 SEEA 的相关性。