Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development: Theory and Practice - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840649240 ISBN 13 : 9781840649246

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Charles Perrings, Professor of Environmental Economics, Vice-Chair, Diversitas, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, US and Jeffrey R. Vincent, Duke University, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840649240
• ISBN 13: 9781840649246
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Perrings Charles, Vincent Jeffrey R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible