Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Japan; Net National Welfare and Beyond

Uno, Ryoko

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7831-8_17

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“…It is also difficult to associate unequivocally particular pollutants with health and welfare effects (for example, health damage caused by air pollution). One approach proposed to assess damage costs is to measure actual expenditures required for the elimination of the damage (Uno, 1989). Such expenditures could be shown separately in the SEEA as possible deductions under welfare aspects (Leipert, 1989).…”

Section: Welfare-oriented Measures Of the Economic Use Ofmentioning

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Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: Framework for a Sna Satellite System

Bartelmus

Stahmer

Tongeren

1991

Review of Income and Wealth

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National accounts have provided the most widely used indicators for the assessment of economic performance, trends of economic growth and of the economic counterpart of social welfare. However, two major drawbacks of national accounting have raised doubts about the usefulness of national accounts data for the measurement of long‐term sustainable economic growth and socio‐economic development. These drawbacks are the neglect of (a) scarcities of natural resources which threaten the sustained productivity of the economy and (b) the degradation of environmental quality from pollution and its effects on human health and welfare. In the present paper, the authors attempt to reflect environmental concerns in an accounting framework which maintains as far as possible SNA concepts and principles. To this end, the accounting framework is used to develop a “SNA Satellite System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting” (SEEA). Environmental costs of economic activities, natural asset accounts and expenditures for environmental protection and enhancement, are presented in flow accounts and balance sheets in a consistent manner, i.e. maintaining the accounting identities of SNA. Such accounting permits the definition and compilation of modified indicators of income and expenditure, product, capital and value added, allowing for the depletion of natural resources, the degradation of environmental quality and social response to these effects. A desk study of a selected country is used to clarify the proposed approaches, to demonstrate their application in future country studies and to illustrate the quantitative effects of the use of modified concepts on the results of analysis.

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Section: Welfare-oriented Measures Of the Economic Use Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: Framework for a Sna Satellite System

Bartelmus

Stahmer

Tongeren

1991

Review of Income and Wealth

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Problems and Fundamentals of Sustainable Development Indicators

Mitchell

1996

Sust. Dev.

171

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Measurement issues are of current concern to organizations faced with the task of promoting sustainability. Single figure aggregate indices of sustainable development (SD), primarily designed for use at the national scale, are not readily applicable locally and are a poor guide for decision‐makers and citizens wishing to promote local sustainability. This has led to an abundance of sustainable development indicator (SDI) sets, each comprising a broad range of specific indicators. Existing indicator sets are not obviously compatible and there is a danger that, without the application of a clear method, indicators will be produced in an ad hoc fashion without full consideration of key SD principles or indicator characteristics. Such SDIs may be ineffective in promoting SD and possibly detrimental to the process. This paper examines the background to SDIs, including problems with their construction, and outlines fundamental steps that should be followed to produce any list of SDIs.

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Environmentally Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Mohtadi¹

1998

Prospects for Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Japan; Net National Welfare and Beyond

Cited by 7 publications

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Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: Framework for a Sna Satellite System

Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: Framework for a Sna Satellite System

Problems and Fundamentals of Sustainable Development Indicators

Environmentally Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa

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