Green Accounting in Europe: A Comparative Study, Volume 2

by Anil Markandya

Traditional measures of economic activity, such as GDP, take no account of damage done to the stock of natural capital by environmental change nor the loss of welfare that economic activity causes through increased pollution. This book predominantly addresses the second question and develops and expands on previous research by the authors (Markandya and Pavan, 1999). Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845421140
• ISBN13: 9781845421144
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages