Environmental Accounting in Theory and Practice
Editors: Uno, K., Bartelmus, Peter (Eds.)
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Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag mented and eclectic policies and strategies. The 1992 United Nations Con ference on Environment and Development, the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, called therefore for an integrated approach in planning and policy making to achieve long-term sustainable growth and development. The Con ference also recognized in its action plan, the Agenda 21, that integrated poli cies need to be supported by integrated information, notably requiring the implementation of integrated environmental and economic accounting by its member States. During the preparations for the Rio Summit, scientists and practitioners of national accounting met in a Special Conference on Environmental Account ing, organized by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Baden, Austria. Their aim was to explore the need for and methodologies of adjusting national accounts for environmental reasons. National accountants had faced mounting criticism that conventional accounting neglected new scarcities in natural capital, as well as the social cost of environmental degradation. The result of their deliberations was a draft manual, later issued by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as a handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Overview
Pages 3-12
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Implementation of environmental accounting: towards an operational manual
Pages 13-32
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Japan: the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) — trial estimates and remaining issues
Pages 35-61
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Republic of Korea: SEEA pilot compilation
Pages 63-76
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Philippines: Adaptation of the United Nations system of environmental accounting
Pages 77-93
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Environmental Accounting in Theory and Practice
- Editors
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- K. Uno
- Peter Bartelmus
- Series Title
- Economy & Environment
- Series Volume
- 11
- Copyright
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-1433-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-1433-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-4559-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-4851-6
- Series ISSN
- 0924-1019
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 461
- Topics
