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Green national accounting: Synthesising and extending the welfare based and sustainability-standard based approaches
Markandya, Anil; Mason, Pamela; Tamborra, Marialuisa - 2000
compatible with achieving environmental sustainability. Both approaches deliver policy-relevant information and a comparison of …
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Towards a typology of "environmentally-adjusted" national sustainability indicators: Key concepts and policy application
O'Connor, Martin - 2000
This paper first describes two types of adjustments to National Accounting Systems, which take the environment into account: the first type centres on accounting conventions, through a change in the system boundary, in order to include specified categories of environmental assets (called...
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Interpreting sustainability in economic terms: Dynamic efficiency plus intergenerational equity
Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F.; Wagner, Gernot - 2002
concept of “sustainability.” We relate such a definition of sustainability to well known concepts from neoclassical economics …-temporal realm, we find that dynamic efficiency is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a notion of sustainability that has … normative standing as a goal for public policy. We define sustainability as dynamic efficiency plus intergenerational equity …
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Sustainable Development Data Availability on the Internet
Caratti, Pietro; Ferraguto, Ludovico - 2006
Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312396
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312409
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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Green accounting and material flow analysis: Alternatives or complements?
Bartelmus, Peter; Vesper, André - 2000
Rather than contributing to the proliferation of ad hoc environmental indicators and accounting systems this paper addresses the physical-monetary dichotomy in measuring the interactions between environment and economy by focusing on two systematic approaches which appear to become international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608652
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On the art of aggregating "apples & oranges"
Jesinghaus, Jochen - 2000
The Communication on Environmental Indicators and Green National Accounting (Com (94) 670 final, 21.12.94) laid the basis for indicator and accounting projects aimed to give comprehensive support to environmental policy, like GARP and GreenStamp. The article is intended to demonstrate: that...
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Land cover accounting in the Czech Republic
Kolar, Jan - 2000
This paper presents the methodological basis and the empirical results of Land cover accounting in the Czech Republic. Land cover accounting comprises two types of accounts: core accounts and supplementary accounts. Core accounts provide information on land cover composition. However, for...
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