Natural Resource Accounting And Economic Development

Author : Charles Perrings,Jeffrey R. Vincent
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026618707

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Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development by Charles Perrings,Jeffrey R. Vincent Pdf

In this important book some of the world's leading scholars in environmental economics explore the theoretical and empirical problems to be solved if policymakers are to develop accounts to capture the sustainability of economic development. The development indicators that have been used over the last half century and more, GDP and GNP, fail to record the change in the value of a nation's natural or environmental capital. The contributions to this volume consider why this is so, and what is required of genuine sustainability measures. They include both theoretical papers on the identification of sustainability measures in optimising and non-optimising economies, and empirical applications of the theory of green accounting to different sectors in developing countries. The extensive introduction surveys the state-of-the-art on natural resource accounting for economic development. The book makes a substantial contribution to the development of an important field of environmental economics. It should be read by all environment and development economists, and policymakers with a particular interest in natural resource accounting, sustainability and development.

Author : Alessandro Lanza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401148368

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Resources Accounting in China by Alessandro Lanza Pdf

Following the presentation ofChina's Agenda XXIin 1994, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei began a fruitful collaboration with the SSTC (State Science and Technology Commission) on Natural Resource Accounting of the People's Republic of China. Among other initiatives, the Fondazione organised a seminar held in Beijing in March 1996, entitled "Resources Accounting in China". This volume brings together 11 papers as the result ofthat seminar. Our main attempt was to compare approaches and knowledge of specific issues in this area. As far as the approach is concerned there appear to be some interesting comparisons to be drawn considering the authors' different fields of expenence. Seven papers are written by Chinese participants and four by visiting experts from the West. All the Chinese contributions point out the importance of the environment in economic development and a determination to measure the effects as a means to successful management of natural resources. They concentrate on rather specific issues within the constraints of the prevailing economic conditions where identification and pricing of assets tend to be specified by administrative norms. Although the general framework of the Chinese approach tends to be scientific and administrative, all papers contain interesting and useful statistical information. The papers by visiting experts also stress the importance of taking into account environmental aspects in deriving indicators relating to economic development. In contrast to the Chinese contributions, however, they tend to be more abstract and more clearly based on economic theory.

Author : Janice C. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Environmental auditing
ISBN : UCSD:31822019121409

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Natural Resource Accounting by Janice C. Wright Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309051439

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Assigning Economic Value to Natural Resources by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources Pdf

There has been a lot of discussion among policymakers, particularly within the Clinton Administration, about how to make U.S. economic indicators, such as GNP, more accurately reflect the state of the environment. This book explores the major issues and controversies involved in incorporating natural resources and the environment into economic accounts. The first section of the volume, based largely on a three-day workshop of experts in the field, explains the possibilities and pitfalls in so-called "green" accounting. This is followed by a selection of nine individually authored papers, including one by Nobel prize winner Robert Solow, that probe scientific aspects of this issues in greater depth.

Author : Statistics Canada. System of National Accounts Branch
Publisher : Micromedia, [199-]
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic development
ISBN : MINN:31951D01750583Q

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Concepts, Sources and Methods of the Canadian System of Environmental and Resource Accounts by Statistics Canada. System of National Accounts Branch Pdf

Canadians, like people in many other countries, have come to understand that the capacities of their environment to supply materials and absorb wastes are finite.

Author : Mario Giampietro,Richard J. Aspinall,Jesus Ramos-Martin,Sandra G. F. Bukkens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317962083

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Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment by Mario Giampietro,Richard J. Aspinall,Jesus Ramos-Martin,Sandra G. F. Bukkens Pdf

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth. This, combined with concerns over environmental change, presents a set of scientific, policy and management issues that are critical for sustainability. Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: The nexus between energy, food, water and land use offers an approach for multi-scale, integrated assessment of this nexus. It presents a comprehensive and original method of resource accounting for integrated sustainability assessments. The approach is illustrated with three detailed case studies: the islands of Mauritius, the Indian state of Punjab, and the energy economy of South Africa. The relationships between flows of goods, services and materials in these case studies offer valuable insights. The book provides a much needed quality control on the information used in deliberative processes about policy and planning activities. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of sustainability science, international development, industrial ecology, sustainable resource management, geography and ecological economics.

Author : Jukka Muukkonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9514739108

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Sustainable Development and Natural Resource Accounting by Jukka Muukkonen Pdf

Author : Roger Perman
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822025445412

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Natural Resource and Environmental Economics by Roger Perman Pdf

Natural Resource and Environmental Economics provides a modern. comprehensive and clear and authoritative introduction to the economic analysis to environmental issues.

Author : Wouter van Dieren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461242468

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Taking Nature Into Account by Wouter van Dieren Pdf

Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy are based on a number of factors - none of which, however, acknowledge the degradation of natural resources. Continued deterioration of the environment is leading us closer to crisis, while policymakers and the public base their decisions on dangerously incomplete information. In Taking Nature into Account, a number of the world's leading experts state the ethical, historical, economic, and ecological arguments for including environmental factors when measuring fiscal health. Initiated by the Club of Rome (an international group of influential businesspeople, statesmen, and scientists), and written in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature, the report reviews existing methodologies and makes recommendations for adjusting the way we think about and measure the economy.

Author : K. Uno,Peter Bartelmus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401714334

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Environmental Accounting in Theory and Practice by K. Uno,Peter Bartelmus Pdf

Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag mented and eclectic policies and strategies. The 1992 United Nations Con ference on Environment and Development, the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, called therefore for an integrated approach in planning and policy making to achieve long-term sustainable growth and development. The Con ference also recognized in its action plan, the Agenda 21, that integrated poli cies need to be supported by integrated information, notably requiring the implementation of integrated environmental and economic accounting by its member States. During the preparations for the Rio Summit, scientists and practitioners of national accounting met in a Special Conference on Environmental Account ing, organized by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Baden, Austria. Their aim was to explore the need for and methodologies of adjusting national accounts for environmental reasons. National accountants had faced mounting criticism that conventional accounting neglected new scarcities in natural capital, as well as the social cost of environmental degradation. The result of their deliberations was a draft manual, later issued by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as a handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.

Author : I. Musu,D. Siniscalco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400915923

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National Accounts and the Environment by I. Musu,D. Siniscalco Pdf

In recent years, analysts, researchers and environmental policy makers have been faced with a serious shortage of empirical data on environmental phenomena. In fact, the information gathered by various organisations has not yet been systematically classified into a consistent system of accounts. This book presents the results of a joint research effort by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Italy's Central Statistical Office (ISTAT) to design a system of accounts for natural and environmental resources. The resulting environmental accounts can be integrated with the existing system of national accounts, in order to estimate the so-called `green GDP' or `net national product' (NNP).

Author : R. M. Auty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199246885

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Resource Abundance and Economic Development by R. M. Auty Pdf

Since the 1960s the per capita incomes of the resource-poor countries have grown significantly faster than those of the resource-abundant countries. In fact, in recent years economic growth has been inversely proportional to the share of natural resource rents in GDP, so that the small mineral-driven economies have performed least well and the oil-driven economies worst of all. Yet the mineral-driven resource-rich economies have high growth potential because the mineral exportsboost their capacity to invest and to import."Resource Abundance and Economic Development" explains the disappointing performance of resource-abundant countries by extending the growth accounting framework to include natural and social capital. The resulting synthesis identifies two contrasting development trajectories: the competitive industrialization of the resource-poor countries and the staple trap of many resource-abundant countries. The resource-poor countries are less prone to policy failure than the resource-abundant countriesbecause social pressures force the political state to align its interests with the majority poor and follow relatively prudent policies. Resource-abundant countries are more likely to engender political states in which vested interests vie to capture resource surpluses (rents) at the expense of policycoherence. A longer dependence on primary product exports also delays industrialization, heightens income inequality, and retards skill accumulation. Fears of 'Dutch disease' encourage efforts to force industrialization through trade policy to protect infant industry. The resulting slow-maturing manufacturing sector demands transfers from the primary sector that outstrip the natural resource rents and sap the competitiveness of the economy.The chapters in this collection draw upon historical analysis and models to show that a growth collapse is not the inevitable outcome of resource abundance and that policy counts. Malaysia, a rare example of successful resource-abundant development, is contrasted with Ghana, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Argentina, which all experienced a growth collapse. The book also explores policies for reviving collapsed economies with reference to Costa Rica, South Africa, Russia and Central Asia. Itdemonstrates the importance of initial conditions to successful economic reform.

Author : Paul A. Haslam,Pablo Heidrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317418900

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The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development by Paul A. Haslam,Pablo Heidrich Pdf

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and public spending on social and developmental goals surged. These trends, often described as resource nationalism, have developed into a strategy for economic development, generated a re-imagining of the state and its institutional possibilities, and created a new but very significant political risk for extractive enterprises. However, these innovations, which constitute the most dramatic change in development policy in Latin America since the advent of neoliberalism, have so far received little attention from either academic or policy-oriented publications. This book explores the reasons behind these policies, and their effects on states, firms, and development trajectories. This text brings together renowned thematic experts to examine the political-economic causes of resource nationalism, as well as its manifestation in six Latin American countries. The causal variables considered by the contributors to this collection include a range of political-economic determinants of policy including commodity prices; the influence of ideology and national politics; ideas about industrial policy; relations between host governments and investors; and how countries respond to opportunities provided by regional initiatives and the new geography of the global economy. This volume is essential reading in development economics, political economy, and Latin American studies, as well as for those who want to understand what economic development means after neoliberalism.

Author : Joy E. Hecht
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental auditing
ISBN : 0967060516

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Lessons Learned from Environmental Accounting by Joy E. Hecht Pdf

Environmental accounting - the modification of the national income accounts to take into consideration the economic role of the environment - has grown in importance over the past ten years. However, many countries have not yet implemented such accounts, and there is much controversy about whether and how to do so. This paper aims to shed light on this situation through nine country case studies: Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden, France, Canada, The Philippines, Namibia, Germany, and the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economic development
ISBN : IND:30000044589541

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Natural Resource and Environmental Accounts for Development Policy by Anonim Pdf