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Abstract
The paper describes an approach to estimating the long-term impact of soil erosion, and
applies that approach to data from the Province of Alberta, Canada. This paper relies upon a soil
classification system established in Canada, known as the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). It also
employs available evidence relating yields to various classes of soils, and relating erosion to its
effect on crop production.
The approach is employed to develop both a set of physical accounts for agricultural soils,
classified by soil type, as well as a set of financial accounts for agricultural soils, since the value
of those soils is influenced by yield potential. The results provide a long-term indication of the
sustainability of the soil resource in the province, and permit developing estimates of future
natural resource accounts for land in (1) physical accounts classified by soil type, and (2) in capital
accounts by value of soil class.