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How Environmental Pollution from Fossil Fuels can be included in measures of National Accounts and Estimates of Genuine Savings

Greasley, David; Hanley, Nicholas; Kunnas, Jan; … - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2012

In this paper, we examine means to incorporate the environmental effects of fossil fuel use into national accounts and genuine savings estimates. The main focus is on the rationales for the inclusion of carbon dioxide, and its appropriate price tag. We do this in the context of the pricing of...

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Historical wealth accounts for Britain : progress and puzzles in measuring the sustainability of economic growth

McLaughlin, Eoin; Hanley, Nick; Greasley, David; Kunnas, Jan - In: Oxford review of economic policy 30 (2014) 1, pp. 44-69

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Sustainability in the making? A historical estimate of Swedish sustainable and unsustainable development 1850–2000

Lindmark, Magnus; Acar, Sevil - In: Ecological Economics 86 (2013) C, pp. 176-187

In this article we estimate the long-run development of genuine savings in Sweden during the period 1850 to 2000. By doing so we are able to present a first analysis of long-run sustainable development during a single country's transition to modern economic growth rates and high income levels....

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Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run:Lessons from Germany

Blum, Matthias; McLaughlin, Eoin; Hanley, Nick - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2014

For many years, the World Bank has reported estimates of the degree of sustainability of the world’s economies using a … measure of adjusted net savings. We construct long-run sustainability indicators for Germany over the period 1850-2000 to test … find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the …

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Sustainable Nations: What do Aggregate Indicators tell us?

Pillarisetti, J. Ram; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2008

compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …

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