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Green Accounting Bibliography: January 2000

This page contains all items published in the selected month. January archives also include entries for the entire year when the exact month of publication is unknown. The page for January 1990 includes everything published prior to that year.

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Sedell, James; Sharpe, Maitland; Dravnieks Apple, Daina; Copenhagen, Max and Furniss, Mike. Water and the Forest Service. USDA Forest Service, Policy Analysis. FS-660 (January 2000). [pdf full text]

Estimates the total economic impact of water from national forests.

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Heal, Geoffrey. 2000. Nature and the Marketplace. Island Press. [order book]

Comprehensive look at economics and the environment. Includes a chapter on institutional challenges, which also discusses green accounting.

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Davidson, Eric D. You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered, 2000, Perseus Publishing. [excerpts, order book; book review in Grist Magazine]

Accessible description of the problems with our national income accounting system. Puts forward a convincing argument for green accounting from an environmentalist perspective.

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Ekins, Paul. Economic growth and environmental sustainability: the prospects for green growth, 2000, Routledge, New York. [order book]

Chapter 5 is on "Accounting for production and the environment." It first presents a general argument for green accounting and then discusses specific theoretical and methodological issues. Ekins also puts forward the argument for developing a so-called 'Sustainability Gap' figure in both physical and monetary terms instead of actually calculating 'Green GDP.'

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UN Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistical Division. 2000. Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: An Operational Manual. New York: UN.

This Operational Manual is a complement to the 1993 SEEA and has been published by the Nairobi Group on Environmental Accounting.

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Jackson, Dudley. The New National Accounts. Edward Elgar, 2000.

A comprehensive overview of the both the SNA 1993 and the European System of Accounts 1995.

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Ehrlich, Anne and Paul. In: "Getting it Right: A Sierra Roundtable discussion on building a greener future," Sierra January/February 2000: 44. [full text]

Sierra asked a group of environmental visionaries too brainstorm ideas for "the next millennium," and Anne and Paul Ehrlich's response includes a reference to green accounting: "One example is the utter inadequacy of GNP as an indicator of the state of society; another is the failure of most economists to recognize the value of 'natural capital,' including biodiversity, productive land, and fresh water."

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