Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts
Title | Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts PDF eBook |
Author | Weltbank |
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Release | 2013 |
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The national accounts are the single most important source of information about the economy, and are widely used in all countries to assess economic performance and for policy analysis. However, the national accounts have a number of well-known shortcomings when it comes to treatment of the environment. For example, while the income from harvesting timber is recorded in national accounts, the simultaneous depletion of natural forest assets is not; perhaps more importantly, essential life-support services provided by forest ecosystems are not explicitly recognized at all. Environmental accounts 'greening the national accounts' have been developed to address the shortcomings of the national accounts, but valuation of environmental services has been controversial.The development of methods to value environmental goods and services continues to evolve apace. In an increasing number of countries, the practical uptake of these methods has accelerated in numerous areas of public policy that have environmental consequences. One policy related domain, however, where this uptake has been largely conspicuous by its absence is national accounting. In this paper, we hope to make the case that there is an opportunity to address this situation.
Greening National Accounts
Title | Greening National Accounts PDF eBook |
Author | Martin O'Connor |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Environmental auditing |
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This policy briefing series communicates the findings from nine workshops and three plenary meetings under the EVE programme. These showed the diversity of research currently being undertaken in the area of environmental values and their policy expression. The type of information relevant to the decision process extends from ecological functioning to moral values.
Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts
Title | Environmental Valuation and Greening the National Accounts PDF eBook |
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Release | 2010 |
Genre | Electronic book |
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Green Accounting
Title | Green Accounting PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bartelmus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2018-01-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351770829 |
This title was first published in 2003. Our cherished economic indicators of income, product, consumption and capital fail in taking a long-term view of social progress. They do not account for environmental deterioration, which impairs the quality of life of present and future generations, and hence the sustainability of development. "Greening" the conventional national (and corporate) accounts introduces environmental impacts and costs into these accounts and balances. The result is a new compass for steering the economy towards sustainability, which may change not only our main measures of economic performance but also the basic tenets of environmental and resource policies. This book presents methodological advances and case studies of environmental accounting, and discusses their use in environmental management and policies. In their introduction, the editors provide a critical perspective of historical developments and current debates.
Nature's Numbers
Title | Nature's Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1999-06-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0309173388 |
In order to really see the forest, what's the best way to count the trees? Understanding how the economy interacts with the environment has important implications for policy, regulatory, and business decisions. How should our national economic accounts recognize the increasing interest in and importance of the environment? Nature's Numbers responds to concerns about how the United States should make these measurements. The book recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts. The panel explores alternative approaches to environmental accounting, including those used in other countries, and addresses thorny issues such as how to measure the stocks of natural resources and how to value non-market activities and assets. Specific applications to subsoil minerals, forests, and clean air show how the general principles can be applied. The analysis and insights provided in this book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, environmental advocates, economics faculty, businesses based on natural resources, and managers concerned with the role of the environment in our economic affairs.
Greening the Accounts
Title | Greening the Accounts PDF eBook |
Author | Sandrine Simon |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Finding such accounts of national wealth as Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product to stand for all that is unsustainable and to be a relic to an industrial age that has passed and must be repudiated, European and North American scholars of accounting, economics, and politics describe an approach to accounting that is compatible with ecological economics. In a dozen studies they cover the history of national accounts, green accounting as a policy instrument, and uses of green accounting. The intended readers are scholars of ecological economics, environmental studies, and business and national accounting. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
National Environmental Accounting
Title | National Environmental Accounting PDF eBook |
Author | Joy E Hecht |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1136525645 |
This book presents national environmental, or 'green' accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial treatment of environmental accounting in economics textbooks and environmental literature, on the one hand, and the highly technical manuals of international organizations, on the other. Joy Hecht begins with a history and introduction to national income accounting. The first part of her book explains how the environmental accounts build on the structure of the 1993 System of National Accounts. She then shows the UN approach to accounting applied to pollution, recycling, and the management of natural resources such as forests, minerals, and fisheries. The third section discusses how the accounts approach green GDP and other macroeconomic indicators. The book concludes by going beyond the UN structures to discuss other adjusted macroeconomic measures and how accounting data can be used to build them. National Environmental Accounting is a non-technical introduction to an increasingly important field. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how environmental accounts can help society move towards greater sustainability.