Summary The traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reflects the money value of the annual economic output produced by the domestic industries’ employees. Thus, the GDP fully accounts for paid work. In contrast, unpaid work remains unconsidered. However, measured in time units, unpaid work...

The traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reflects the money value of the annual economic output produced by the domestic industries' employees. Thus, the GDP fully accounts for paid work. In contrast, unpaid work remains unconsidered. However, measured in time units, unpaid work clearly...

The book reviews a variety of approaches actually attempted nowadays in establishing environmental accounting systems in close vicinity to national accounting (NA). At the same time it also considers the theoretical background and pros and cons of various proposals put forward. That way the...