Nature's Numbers - Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

Summary

Recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts. This work explores alternative approaches to environmental accounting and addresses thorny issues such as how to measure the stocks of natural resources and how to value non-market activities and assets.

Product details

• Authors: Commission on Behavioral and Social Scie, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Panel on Integrated Environmental and Ec, Panel on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
• Assisted by: Edward C Kokkelenberg (Editor), Edward C. Kokkelenberg (Editor), William D Nordhaus (Editor), William D. Nordhaus (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.1999
• EAN: 9780309071512
• ISBN: 978-0-309-07151-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 599 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Makroökonomie, Umweltschutz, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Politics / Current Events