Handbook of environmental accounting / edited by Thomas Aronsson, Karl-Gustaf Lofgren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-

Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental auditing.

Accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This concise Handbook examines welfare measurement problems in a dynamic economy, focusing on the welfare-economic foundations for social accounting. With environmental accounting becoming an increasingly important area of research, this timely Handbook assesses the ways in which the system of national accounts should be modified to accurately reflect the social value of economic activity, and how the comprehensive (or 'green') net national product ought to be measured. It also addresses the principles for measuring welfare in a community at a given point in time, cost-benefit analysis for mea

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; 1 An introduction to the theory of social accounting; 2 The money metrics problem in dynamic welfare analysis; 3 Welfare measurement, hyperbolic discounting and paternalism; 4 Dynamic endogenous risk and social accounting; 5 Welfare measurement and public goods in a second-best economy; 6 How are green national accounts produced in practice?; 7 The theory of dynamic cost-benefit analysis: some recent advances; 8 Some dynamic economic consequences of the climate-sensitivity inference dilemma; 9 Sustainable consumption programs

10 The relationship between welfare measures and indicators of sustainable development11 Genuine saving, social welfare and rules for sustainability; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-90837-5

9786612908378

1-84980-570-9

OCLC:

691180969