National Accounts and the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Fundamental Concepts for the Development of a System of Environmental Accounts by ISTAT

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. First report of the commission ISTAT-Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei for the study of a system of environmental accounting

      • Cesare Costantino

      Pages 3-24

3. Contributions Towards an Environmental Accounting System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Environmental accounting: Introductory remarks

      • Ignazio Musu, Domenico Siniscalco

      Pages 27-32

   3. Environmental accounting: Problems and proposals

      • Giuseppe Sammarco

      Pages 33-47

   4. Environmental accounting and policy: A theoretical framework

      • Andrea Beltratti

      Pages 49-63

   5. The input-output system extended to environmental accounting

      • Martino Lo Cascio, Maria Rosa Virdis

      Pages 65-86

   6. Proposal for a general approach for the development of a system of environmental accounts by ISTAT

      • Cesare Costantino

      Pages 87-106

   7. Information bases for environmental policies

      • Emilio Gerelli, Vincenzo Patrizii

      Pages 107-130

4. International Experiences of Environmental Accounting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. A methodological and operative analysis of the most recent developments in environmental accounting in the EEC, the UN and the OECD

      • Cesare Costantino

      Pages 133-188

   3. Elements of environmental accounting in some European countries — a methodological and operational analysis: The cases of France, Germany and the Netherlands

      • Cesare Costantino

      Pages 189-204

   4. Environmental accounting and environmental policy: The case of Norway

      • Annamaria Nese

      Pages 205-213

5. Basic Statistical Information: Some Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. An inventory of atmospheric pollution emissions in Italy: Structure and evolutionary development

      • Domenico Gaudioso, Willy Bocola, Roberto Del Ciello

      Pages 217-252

   3. An estimate of environmental and defensive expenditures

      • Roberto Cullino

      Pages 253-272

   4. Data banks on environmental information sources

      • Lucio Sabatini

      Pages 273-275

   5. The environmental budget of the firm

      • Roberto Cullino, Giuseppe Sammarco

      Pages 277-287

6. Back Matter

   Pages 289-303

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In recent years, analysts, researchers and environmental policy makers have been faced with a serious shortage of empirical data on environmental phenomena. In fact, the information gathered by various organisations has not yet been systematically classified into a consistent system of accounts.
This book presents the results of a joint research effort by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Italy's Central Statistical Office (ISTAT) to design a system of accounts for natural and environmental resources. The resulting environmental accounts can be integrated with the existing system of national accounts, in order to estimate the so-called `green GDP' or `net national product' (NNP).

• development
• environment
• environmental policy
• organization
• research

• University of Venice, Venice, Italy

  Ignazio Musu

• University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  Domenico Siniscalco

• Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy

  Domenico Siniscalco

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