Author: Zhi XuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Natural Resource Accounting for the National Forests : a Conceptual Framework
Author: Zhi XuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Nature's Numbers
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In order to really see the forest, what's the best way to count the trees? Understanding how the economy interacts with the environment has important implications for policy, regulatory, and business decisions. How should our national economic accounts recognize the increasing interest in and importance of the environment? Nature's Numbers responds to concerns about how the United States should make these measurements. The book recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts. The panel explores alternative approaches to environmental accounting, including those used in other countries, and addresses thorny issues such as how to measure the stocks of natural resources and how to value non-market activities and assets. Specific applications to subsoil minerals, forests, and clean air show how the general principles can be applied. The analysis and insights provided in this book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, environmental advocates, economics faculty, businesses based on natural resources, and managers concerned with the role of the environment in our economic affairs.
General Technical Report NC.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
General Technical Report NE
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Agrindex
Author: Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition
Author: National Academy of EngineeringPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309522331
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
When Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969, no environmental measurements were necessary to know the seriousness of the problem. Incidents like the Cuyahoga fire raise an important question: Can catastrophes-in-the-making be detected early enough to be prevented? For those in industry, such disasters point to the need for measures that can improve the environmental performance of processes, products, business practices, and linked industrial systems. In Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition, experts share their insights on environmental metrics. The volume explores the most productive relationship between measures of environmental performance and measures of ecosystem conditions. It reviews current approaches, evaluates structures for business decisionmaking, and includes a matrix for determining the environmental performance of industrial facilities. Case studies include: Development and application of a water-quality rating scheme for streams and reservoirs in the Tennessee Valley. Three years of successful experience with waste metrics at 3M. The book covers the range of environmental performance and condition metrics, from the use of material flow data to monitor environmental performance at the national level to the use of bioassays to measure the toxicity of industrial effluents. This book offers something for everyone--policymakers, executives, engineers, managers, and advocates--with a stake in the measurement of environmental performance and ecological conditions.
Wasting Assets
Author: Robert C. RepettoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Towards Sustainable Development Indicators to Measure Progress (Proceedings of the Rome Conference)
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264187642
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The book contains the proceedings of the OECD Conference that was held in Rome in December 1999. It presents the wide range of initiatives and indicators that are already in place, and outlines the challenges that remain in measuring progress towards sustainable development.
Conceptual Framework for Minerals Analysis in the RPA Assessment
Author: Deborah J. ShieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
General Technical Report RM.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description