Toward improved accounting for the environment

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Toward improved accounting for the environment

Accounting for wealth and income is important. Individuals as well as nations wish to measure their capital stock and in particular their sustainable income which they may consume without living beyond their means and drawing down their assets. There are various kinds of capital: man-made, natural/environmental, and various forms of social capital. Most national accounting in the past has focused on the man-made capital. To be able to properly maintain it, one needs to be aware of and compute a capital consumption (or depreciation) allowance. This allowance is subtracted from a nation's gross domestic product (GDP) to arrive at a nation's net domestic product (NDP). If one only considers man-made capital, the NDP so computed is sustainable in the sense that one can consume that amount while maintaining the capital stock intact, which forms the basis for future production and income. The author deals with the question of how to better account for natural capital in an integrated way within the usual economic accounting framework. He describes the progress that has been made in recent years in conceptualizing and operationalizing the proposed approaches and measures. The author has made an important contribution to this topic in collaboration with the United Nations Statistical Agency (UNSTAT). The publication's goal is to be able to measure environmentally sustainable income.

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World Bank
Language
English
Pages
329

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An UNSTAT-World Bank symposium."

Published in
Washington, D.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
657/.73
Library of Congress
HF5686.N3 T69 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 329 p. :
Number of pages
329

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1405596M
Internet Archive
towardimprovedac0000unse
ISBN 10
0821324365
LCCN
93013831
OCLC/WorldCat
28148749
LibraryThing
8685618
Goodreads
3747365

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OL18248618W

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