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National environmental accounting

bridging the gap between ecology and economy

By Joy E. Hecht

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Publish Date

2005

Publisher

Resources for the Future

Language

eng

Pages

272

Description:

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. [Publisher web site].