Nature's Numbers : Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The National Income and Product Accounts: History and Application to the Environment -- 3 Accounting for Subsoil Mineral Resources -- 4 Accounting for Renewable and Environmental Resources -- 5 Overall Appraisal of Environmental Accounting in the United States -- APPENDIX A Sustainability and Economic Accounting -- APPENDIX B Sources of Physical and Valuation Data on Natural Resources and the Environment -- APPENDIX C Accounting for Forest Assets -- APPENDIX D Glossary -- APPENDIX E Biographical Sketches -- References -- Index.