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.
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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.
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Joy E Hecht may help us save ourselves, if we listen and try our best.,
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I attempted to read this work when referencing her other work while researching a paper for a group of undergraduate classes, focused upon our economics and environment. I Aced the classes, but I could not get off the ground on this work. It is quite technical. As for the author and subject, Social Environmental Accounting has greatly influenced my life. In great part due to other work by Joy E. Hecth. Some day I may complete this work.
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The term environmental accounts refers to information systems that link environmental and economic data at the national level, including the national income accounts and related satellite accounts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physical flow accounts, adjusted macroeconomic indicators, protection expenditure accounts, ice cream economy, nonmarketed products, national environmental accounts, subsoil assets, monetary asset accounts, net price method, nonproduced assets, own account transport, material flow accounts, nonmarketed services, manufactured assets, asset boundary, integrated economic accounts, ecosystem inputs, intermediate consumption, nonmarketed goods, material flow accounting, national income accountants, forest accounting, theme indicators, fisheries accounts, defensive expenditures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Total Total, Kyoto Protocol, Nature's Numbers, European Union, London Group, United Nations, National Environmental Accounts, Statistics Canada, Pollution Accounting, World Bank, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, Total Labor, National Environmental Accounting, Genuine Progress Indicator, Imports Final, System of National Accounts, Henry Peskin, Lower Saxony, Roefie Hueting, The Physical Side New!
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The term environmental accounts refers to information systems that link environmental and economic data at the national level, including the national income accounts and related satellite accounts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physical flow accounts, adjusted macroeconomic indicators, protection expenditure accounts, ice cream economy, nonmarketed products, national environmental accounts, subsoil assets, monetary asset accounts, net price method, nonproduced assets, own account transport, material flow accounts, nonmarketed services, manufactured assets, asset boundary, integrated economic accounts, ecosystem inputs, intermediate consumption, nonmarketed goods, material flow accounting, national income accountants, forest accounting, theme indicators, fisheries accounts, defensive expenditures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Total Total, Kyoto Protocol, Nature's Numbers, European Union, London Group, United Nations, National Environmental Accounts, Statistics Canada, Pollution Accounting, World Bank, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, Total Labor, National Environmental Accounting, Genuine Progress Indicator, Imports Final, System of National Accounts, Henry Peskin, Lower Saxony, Roefie Hueting, The Physical Side New!
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- Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows on page 9, page 154, and Back Matter
- European Union (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 91, and page 177
- Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Robert Costanza in Back Matter
- Green Accounting (International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy) by Peter Bartelmus in Front Matter
- Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (New Catalyst Bioregional Series) (Paperback) by Williams E. Rees in Back Matter
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