This paper uses the cases of Chad and Mauritania to illustrate how the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) and net saving can be used to diagnose policy failure and improve economic performance.
This paper provides an analysis of the importance and analytical potential of indirect flows in Italy. First, the importance of indirect flows is discussed, including a definition and instructions on calculation. This is followed by a detailed analysis of the Italian case, including several decompositions. Last, the paper concludes that indirect flows are quantitatively and qualitatively important and policy relevant and provides an outlook of their potential for future analysis.
This paper aims to value the biodiversity functions of India’s natural ecosystems and suggests a method to adjust national (GDP) and state income (GSDP) accounts accordingly.
This report represents the first regional and global synthesis of data collected within the framework of the Global Socio-economic Monitoring for Coastal Management (SocMon) initiative.
This paper aims to identify the costs of coastal disasters in relation to human, social, built, and natural capital as well as their associated services at the local site of the disaster and in the regions and nations that respond for relief and recovery. It examines how, compared to typical cost accounting, disaster planning and preparedness becomes more cost effective when the full cost of disasters is calculated. A full-cost accounting also sets the stage for rigorous comparisons of strategies for post-disaster development.
This paper describes various management tools and indicators for sustainable development and provides some lessons drawn from Norwegian experiences. It recommends that, regardless of the information collected and organised to support decision-making processes, the final outcome should always be judged in terms of its impacts on policy processes. Thus, the authors warn against large-scale development of information systems, without due regard to the final utilisation of the output.
This publication gives an overview of Statistic Norway's work of compiling national statistics on natural resources and environmental issues, and developing methods and models for analysing trends in the extraction and use of natural resources and changes in the state of the environment. In particular, the study focuses on relationships between these factors and other socio-economic developments.
This case study utilizes an expanded measure of wealth to estimate the value of natural capital for Queensland, Australia. The state's stock of natural capital is valued at AUSD 355.6 billion, of which non-timber forest resources account for 45.3%, ecosystem services 20.0%, and mineral resources 17.6%. This figure is a conservative estimate of the true value since some significant components such as the ecological and life-support functions of the environment are excluded. The estimates highlight the relative importance of different forms of natural capital and can be used to draw the attention of policymakers to the need to give adequate weight to the value of such services in decision-making processes.
This study presents a framework for the valuation of ecosystem services related to conservation policies, both theoretically and practically, in order to make an economic case for the conservation of biodiversity. Theoretically, it is shown that the application of monetary valuation techniques is instrumental to the outcomes of models. Practically, the case study covers the valuation of water purification in the Northern Mediterranean region.
This study describes the Indian forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under forest), physical volume (of timber and carbon), and monetary values. The study demonstrates that forest resource accounting is feasible in India at a disaggregate level using a top-down approach and provides an interesting view of how different regions are doing when their performance is measured on a sustainability yardstick.