National environmental accounting
Subtitle: bridging the gap between ecology and economy
By: Joy E. Hecht.
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Natural resources -- Accounting; Environmental auditing; National income -- Accounting
Description: 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. [Publisher web site].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: National environmental accounts; title: Concepts of conventional national income accounting; title: Structure of the conventional income accounts; title: Overview of the revised SEEA; title: Pollution accounting : the physical side; title: Pollution accounting : what are we spending now?; title: Pollution accounting : policy questions; title: Resource accounting; title: Forest accounts; title: Subsoil asset accounts; title: Fisheries, land, and water accounts; title: Macroeconomic indicators in the SEEA; title: Macroeconomic measures outside the SEEA.