GREEned National STAtistical and Modelling Procedures: the GREENSTAMP approach to the calculation of environmentally adjusted national income figures

International Journal of Sustainable Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-31

  Brouwer, Roy ^a   O’Connor, Martin ^b   Radermacher, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c Federal Statistical Office Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

avoidance cost curves; cost effectiveness; dynamic models; environmental standards; GREENSTAMP; national accounts; statistical methods; sustainable national income

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855817545     PISSN: 09601406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.1999.004304     Document Type: Article

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