Green Accounting Bibliography: July 2002
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"The Global Environment," The Economist, 6 July 2002, after p. 58. [full text]
In a 15-page survey on The Global Environment, The Economist's environment and energy correspondent Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that "markets could be a potent force for greenery--if only greens could learn to love them." He quotes Gus Speth, head of Yale's environment school and formerly head of the World Resources Institute and UNDP, in saying that "not getting the prices right" was "the single biggest failure in environmental management." Furthermore, he cites the World Bank's Ian Johnson in saying that GDP and other economic indicators "are not measuring wealth creation properly because they ignore the effects of environmental degradation."
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