The Netherlands’ NAMEA; presentation, usage and future extensions

Keuning, Steven; Dalen, Jan van; Haan, Mark de

doi:10.1016/s0954-349x(98)00058-7

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“…In the early nineties, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) developed the NAMEA, which was subsequently adopted by EU countries within the EUROSTAT environmental accounting project (Keuning et al, 1999). In this framework, environmental information is compiled so that it is compatible with the presentation of economic activities in national accounts.…”

Section: Namea Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Income growth and atmospheric pollution in Spain: An input–output approach

Roca

Serrano

2007

Ecological Economics

122

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Abstract:The relationships between economic growth and environmental pressures are complex. Since the early nineties, the debate on these relationships has been strongly influenced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, which states that during the first stage of economic development environmental pressures increase as per capita income increases, but once a critical turningpoint has been reached these pressures diminish as income levels continue to increase. However, to date such a delinking between economic growth and emission levels has not happened for most atmospheric pollutants in Spain. The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between income growth and nine atmospheric pollutants in Spain. In order to obtain empirical outcomes for this analysis, we adopt an input-output approach and use NAMEA data for the nine pollutants. First, we undertake a structural decomposition analysis for the period 1995-2000 to estimate the contribution of various factors to changes in the levels of atmospheric emissions. And second, we estimate the emissions associated with the consumption patterns of different groups of households classified according to their level of expenditure.Key words: input-output analysis, atmospheric pollution, income growth, environmental Kuznets Curve, Spain JEL classification: C67, Q51Resumen: Las relaciones entre crecimiento económico y presiones atmosféricas son complejas. Desde principios de los años noventa, el debate sobre estas relaciones ha estado muy influenciado por la hipótesis de la Curva de Kuznets Ambiental, según la cual durante la primera etapa del desarrollo económico las presiones ambientales crecen a medida que incrementa la renta per cápita pero, una vez se alcanza un cierto nivel de renta, estas presiones disminuyen conforme la renta per cápita continua aumentando. Sin embargo, para la gran mayoría de contaminantes atmosféricos esta desvinculación entre crecimiento económico y nivel de emisión no se ha producido hasta la fecha en España. El objetivo de este artículo es profundizar en las relaciones existentes entre el crecimiento de renta y las emisiones de nueve contaminantes atmosféricos en España. Para ello, se adopta un enfoque input-output y se utilizan los datos del NAMEA para estos nueve contaminantes. En primer lugar, se estima la contribución de diferentes factores sobre los cambios en los niveles de emisiones atmosféricas mediante un análisis de descomposición estructural para el periodo 1995-2000. En segundo lugar, haciendo uso también de datos de la Encuesta Continua de Presupuestos Familiares, se estiman las emisiones asociadas a los patrones de consumo de los diferentes hogares españoles clasificados según su nivel de gasto.

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Section: Namea Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Income growth and atmospheric pollution in Spain: An input–output approach

Roca

Serrano

2007

Ecological Economics

122

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“…Other data on national value added and units of labour (full time 17 See the works by Ike (1999), Vaze (1999), Haan and Keuning (2000) and Keuning et al (1999), among others, who provide descriptive and methodological insights on NAMEA for some major countries. Steenge (1999) provides an analysis of NAMEA with reference to environmental policy issues, while Nakamura (1999) exploits Dutch NAMEA data for a study on waste and recycling along and input-output reasoning.…”

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Economic Dynamics, Emission Trends and the EKC Hypothesis: New Evidence Using NAMEA and Provincial Panel Data for Italy

2007

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SummaryThis paper provides new empirical evidence on delinking trends concerning emission-related indicators in Italy. We discuss methodological issues regarding the analysis of delinking and examine the related Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) literature to explore and assess the most value added research lines after more than a decade of intensive research in the field. The main contribution of the paper is in providing EKC evidence exploiting environmentaleconomic merged panel datasets at a decentralized level exploiting long time series and rich cross section heterogeneity at both sectoral and provincial level. This crucially augments the unsatisfactory outcomes deriving from cross country analyses, which are less informative for policy purposes since they provide averages for environmental-economic relationships. Two panel datasets: 1990-2000 emissions at province level; and sectoral disaggregated NAMEA emissions sources for 1990-2001 are analyzed. We find mixed evidence supporting the EKC hypothesis. Some of the pollutants in the NAMEA data, such as CO2, CH4 and CO, produce inverted-U shaped curves with coherent within range turning points. Other emission trends for the period under consideration show monotonic or even N shaped (SOX, NOX, PM10) relationship. Other emissions show relatively less robust results, with mixed evidence arising from different specifications. This partially confirms some of the criticisms directed to EKC empirical investigations. However, our analysis shows that probably there is no single EKC dynamic, but rather many EKC dynamics, differing depending on (i) period of observation; (ii) country/area; (iii) emissions/environmental pressures; (iv) sectors. Sectoral disaggregated analysis highlights that an aggregated outcome should hide some heterogeneity across different sectors. Services tend to present an inverted-N shape in most cases. Manufacturing industry shows a mix of EKC inverted-U and N shapes, depending on the emission considered. The same is true for industry (all industries, not only manufacturing): though a turning point has been experienced, N shapes may lead to increased emissions with respect to very high levels of the income driver. The analysis of provincial data shows that inverted-U shaped curves are present for some of the emissions in the SINAnet-APAT database, such as CH4, NMVOC, CO and PM10, with coherent within range turning points. Other emission trends show a monotonic relationship (CO2 and N2O), or in some cases an inverted-N shaped relationship (SOX and NOX). This kind of analysis at macro sector and/or specific sector level appear to be the most promising and robust field of future research for the assessment of EKC dynamics. National studies grounded in geographical heterogeneity, rather than regional/international analysis, and focused on sectoral trends, are more informative for policy making. The implementation of such investigations needs larger datasets than are currently available. We thus point to the need for increasing and continual effort...

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“…Analysts have long recognized this and construct environmental statistics that are consistent with the system of national accounts. In the EU this data is collected by Eurostat under the name National Accounting Matrices with Environmental Accounts (NAMEA; de Haan and Keuning 1996; Keuning et al 1999;de Haan and Keuning 2001;European 2001;Pedersen and de Haan 2006) Since our emission statistics are based on NAMEA's, they will in general not match with the emission statistics submitted to the UNFCCC. The most significant difference in the Nordic countries is bunker fuels ).…”

Section: Data Summarymentioning

confidence: 99%