Advocates of natural resource accounting argue for the revision and refonnulation of national accounting practices in order to better account for the depletion and degradation of a nation's resource stocks and environmental assets. The literature is predicated on three key assumptions: that...

There is evidence that investors value environmental performance disclosure by companies. This paper attempts to determine whether this environmental performance information affects share price. An index of environmental performance is constructed from a survey of the commitment of corporations...

This paper tries to test the effect of environmental friendliness on compliance behaviour using data from a tradable emissions program currently running in Los Angeles.

This paper compares alternative estimates of the extent of Australia's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While the total amount cannot be known with certainty, debate concerning appropriate policies to deal with and monitor emissions must rely on estimates. However, it is shown that there are...

This paper reports a laboratory experiment that studies several specific features of the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), a tradable emission permit program intended to lower the cost of meeting federal air quality standards in the Los Angeles area. It assesses the impact of some...

Time series data consisting of 671 observations of seawater temperature, observed at irregular intervals off Maria Island, Hobart, Australia, over a period of 50 years, are examined. The mean temperature exhibits an approximately linear trend which is taken as evidence of glabal warming.

This paper examines the consumption of water by households that are individually metered (single-metered households) and those sharing a water meter (group-metered households).