Green National Accounting in Theory and Practice - From Gdp to Green Gdp

This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country's Green GDP and how this measure relates to the conventional GDP.

List of contents

1. A theoretical framework for estimating the Green Net National Income in a distorted open economy. 2. The value of exhaustible and renewable natural resources. 3. The health-related costs of air pollution. 4. The costs of water pollution. 5. The recreational benefits from nature. 6. Valuing biodiversity. 7. The domestic costs of global warming. 8. The evolution of Denmark's Green Net National Income: Methodological issues and empirical findings. Index

About the author

Peter Birch Sørensen is Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, a member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters, and an international research Fellow in the CESifo research network. He is also a former Director of the Economic Policy Research Unit at the University of Copenhagen. His research has covered topics in Environmental and Climate Economics, Public Economics and Macroeconomics.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Birch Srensen
• Assisted by: Peter Birch Sørensen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032010410
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201041-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols