National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy

ISBN-13: 9781891853944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str.

Joy E. Hecht

Opis

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 E. 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 3rd section discusses how the accounts approach green GDP and other macroeconomic indicators.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 National Environmental Accounts; Chapter 2 Concepts of Conventional National Income Accounting; Chapter 3 Structure of the Conventional Income Accounts; Chapter 4 Overview of the Revised SEEA; Chapter 5 Pollution Accounting; Chapter 6 Pollution Accounting; Chapter 7 Pollution Accounting; Chapter 8 Resource Accounting; Chapter 9 Forest Accounts; Chapter 10 Subsoil Asset Accounts; Chapter 11 Fisheries, Land, and Water Accounts; Chapter 12 Macroeconomic Indicators in the SEEA; Chapter 13 Macroeconomic Measures outside the SEEA;

O autorze

Joy E. Hecht is a consultant on international environmental and accounting issues. She worked previously for the World Conservation Union on the Green Accounting Initiative.