Environmental accounting in action : case studies from southern Africa / Glenn-Marie Lange, Rshid Hassan, Kirk Hamilton ; with a contribution from Moortaza Jiwanji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lange, Glenn-Marie.

Contributor:

Hassan, Rashid M.

Hamilton, Kirk, 1951-

Jiwanji, Moortaza.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--Africa, Southern--Accounting--Case studies.

Natural resources.

National income--Africa, Southern--Accounting--Case studies.

National income.

Environmental auditing--Africa, Southern--Accounting--Case studies.

Environmental auditing.

Accounting.

Southern Africa.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

1 Basic concepts and methods of natural resource and environmental accounting / Glenn-Marie Lange, Rashid Hassan, Kirk Hamilton 1

1.2 Economic dependence on natural resources in southern Africa 4

1.3 Resource rent and sustainable management of resources 6

1.4 Structure of environmental accounts 10

1.5 Indicators of sustainability: genuine savings 19

2 Mineral accounts: managing an exhaustible resource / Glenn-Marie Lange, Rashid Hassan 25

2.2 Methodology and data sources 32

2.3 Mineral accounts and resource rent from mining 39

2.4 Policy implications for resource management 50

Appendix A Detailed mineral accounts 60

3 Forestry accounts: capturing the value of forest and woodland resources / Rashid Hassan 70

3.2 Accounting for flow benefits of forest and woodland resources 71

3.3 Asset values and depreciation of forest and woodland resources 80

3.4 Revising national accounts for the contribution of forest and woodland resources 93

Appendix B Detailed forest accounts for South Africa 100

4 Fisheries accounts: management of a recovering fishery / Glenn-Marie Lange 111

4.2 Namibia's fisheries policy 117

4.3 Methodology and data sources 122

4.4 Physical and monetary accounts for fish 130

4.5 Policy implications for fisheries resource management 137

5 Water accounts: an economic perspective on managing water scarcity / Glenn-Marie Lange, Rashid Hassan, Moortaza Jiwanji 153

5.2 Water policy in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa 156

5.3 Methodology and data 161

5.4 Physical and monetary accounts for water 175

5.5 Policy implications 185

Appendix C Detailed water accounts for Botswana, Namibia and South Africa 190

6 Managing natural capital and national wealth / Kirk Hamilton, Glenn-Marie Lange 203

6.2 The role of natural resources in development 203

6.3 Wealth, welfare and sustainability 205

6.4 Empirical estimates of national wealth including natural capital 207

6.5 The policy challenge for resource-abundant economies 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843760762

OCLC:

49936148