Taking Nature Into Account A Report to the Club of Rome Toward a Sustainable National Income
Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors ß but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural resources. The numbers may look good, but continued deterioration of the environment is leading us clos...
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- I Economic Growth and Western Society
- 2 The History and Roots of Growth
- 3 Economic Growth and and Gross National Product
- II Paradoxes of Growth
- 4 State of the Environment
- 5 Failures of the System of National Accounts
- III Sustainable Development
- 6 From Growth to Sustainability
- 7 The Concept of Sustainability
- 8 Vision of the South
- 9 Indicators for Measuring Welfare
- 10 The Role of Social Indicators
- IV Environmental Adjustment of the System of National Accounts
- 11 Defensive Expenditures
- 12 Depletion of Natural Resources
- 13 Estimating Sustainable National Income
- 14 Environmental Accounting and the System of National Accounts
- V Taking Nature into Account: Conclusions and Recommendations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Steering By the Right Compass
- 3. SNA 1993 Revision and the UN Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
- 4. Adjustment of GDP: Different Objectives
- 5. The Current SNA: A Narrow Economic Point of View
- 6. Cost Accounting from a Comprehensive Economic- Point of View
- 7. Cost Accounting from a Responsibility Point of View
- 8. Resistance to and Solutions for Change
- 9. Strengthening International Coordination
- 10. Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
- References