Natural resource accounting and economic development : theory and practice
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Natural resource accounting and economic development : theory and practice
Edward Elgar, c2003
Available at 16 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this important book some of the world's leading scholars in environmental economics explore the theoretical and empirical problems to be solved if policymakers are to develop accounts to capture the sustainability of economic development. The development indicators that have been used over the last half century and more, GDP and GNP, fail to record the change in the value of a nation's natural or environmental capital. The contributions to this volume consider why this is so, and what is required of genuine sustainability measures. They include both theoretical papers on the identification of sustainability measures in optimising and non-optimising economies, and empirical applications of the theory of green accounting to different sectors in developing countries. The extensive introduction surveys the state-of-the-art on natural resource accounting for economic development.
The book makes a substantial contribution to the development of an important field of environmental economics. It should be read by all environment and development economists, and policymakers with a particular interest in natural resource accounting, sustainability and development.
Table of Contents
Contents: 1. Green Accounting and the Sustainability of Economic Development 2. Green National Accounting: Why and How? 3. Sustainability Accounting and Green Accounting 4. The Linearized Hamiltonian as Comprehensive NDP 5. Net National Product, Wealth, and Social Well-being 6. Accounting for the Distributional Impacts of Policy in the Green Accounts 7. Valuing Mineral Stocks and Depletion in Green National Income Accounts 8. Natural Resource Accounts for Minerals: A Southern Africa Country Comparison 9. Tanzania's Soil Wealth 10. Estimating Timber Depreciation in the Brazilian Amazon 11. Integrating Forest Resources into the System of National Accounts in Maharashtra, India 12. Improved Measure of the Contribution of Cultivated Forests to National Income and Wealth in South Africa 13. Fisheries Accounting in Namibia 14. Resource Depletion and Economic Sustainability in Malaysia 15. Global Macroeconomic Sustainability: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach Index
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