Nature's numbers expanding the national economic accounts to include the environment

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 i...

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Hlavní autoři: Nordhaus, William D, Kokkelenberg, Edward Charles
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Washington, D.C National Academy Press 1999
National Academies Press
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ISBN:9780309071512, 0309071518
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  • Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The National Income and Product Accounts: History and Application to the Environment -- 3 Accounting for Subsoil Mineral Resources -- 4 Accounting for Renewable and Environmental Resources -- 5 Overall Appraisal of Environmental Accounting in the United States -- APPENDIX A Sustainability and Economic Accounting -- APPENDIX B Sources of Physical and Valuation Data on Natural Resources and the Environment -- APPENDIX C Accounting for Forest Assets -- APPENDIX D Glossary -- APPENDIX E Biographical Sketches -- References -- Index