Recording environmental assets in the national accounts

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-144

  Obst, Carl ^a   Vardon, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Balance sheets; Depletion and degradation; Ecosystem measurement; Environmental accounting; Environmental assets; National accounts; Natural capital; Natural resources; Sustainability; System of environmental economic accounting (SEEA); Water accounts

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL CAPITAL; NATURAL RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY; UNITED NATIONS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84901502416     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/gru003     Document Type: Article

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