The Mirror of Cleanliness: on the construction and use of an environmental index

Butter, Frank Den

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“…Sustainability indicators can more easily be aggregated than pressure and impact indicators, because measures of distances can be expressed in the same dimension and aggregated. Some progress, however, has also been made in aggregation various aspects of environmental conditions into one index, such as noise, odour and air pollutants (De Boer et al, 1991, see also Hope, Parker and Peake, 1992;Den Butter, 1992).…”

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Measuring the trade-off between economic growth and a clean environment

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Verbruggen

1994

Environ Resource Econ

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This article surveys various aspects of the measurement of environmental quality from the view point of national accounting and welfare economics. It focuses on the question whether GNP or NNP should be corrected for environmental change (‘green’ or ‘eco’-GNP) or whether physical accounts provide sufficient information for an assessment of the trade-off mentioned above. We conclude that valuation of (services from) environmental capital cannot be avoided for such assessment, but can only be made using a model based approach. Statistical agencies should continue to collect data on environmental quality and to value changes in environmental capital in the context of national resource accounting. However, official statisticians should refrain from correcting GNP or NNP for environmental change, as this correction implicitly contains a political judgment and cannot be based on mere technical knowledge. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994Green GNP, optimal economic growth, sustainable development, environmental capital, environmental valuation, indicators,

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Measuring the trade-off between economic growth and a clean environment

Butter

Verbruggen

1994

Environ Resource Econ

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“…Den Butter (1992) and den Butter and van de Eyden (1998) focus on the environmental quality of The Netherlands. Hope et al (1992) develop an environmental quality index for Great Britain.…”

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Constructing aggregate environmental-economic indicators: a comparison of 12 OECD countries

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Veen-Groot

2001

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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The Mirror of Cleanliness: on the construction and use of an environmental index

Cited by 2 publications

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Measuring the trade-off between economic growth and a clean environment

Measuring the trade-off between economic growth and a clean environment

Constructing aggregate environmental-economic indicators: a comparison of 12 OECD countries

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