Concerns about natural resource scarcity, together with the increased awareness of environmental problems, has led to widespread interest in green accounting, which attempts to extend the standard national accounts to include the yields from natural and environmental resources. For this volume,...

The concept of genuine saving has in recent years become widely accepted as a dynamic welfare indicator, which first appeared in Weitzman (Q. J. Econ. 99:1–13, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">1976</CitationRef>) and then formalized by Pearce and Atkinson (Ecol. Econ. 8:103–108, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12">1993</CitationRef>). This paper attempts to generalize this concept in a...</citationref></citationref>

This paper deals with the modern theory of social cost-benefit analysis in a dynamic economy. The theory emphasizes the role of a comprehensive, forward-looking, dynamic welfare index within the period of the project rather than that of a project's long-term consequences. However, what...