Handbook of Environmental Accounting

Citation

(2011), "Handbook of Environmental Accounting", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2011.08322cae.002

Handbook of Environmental Accounting

Handbook of Environmental Accounting

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 22, Issue 3

Edited by Thomas Aronsson and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren,Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd,Cheltenhan,December 2010,ISBN 1847203841,296 pp.,£94.50

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 measuring welfare change and the principles for measuring sustainability, all of which have played important roles in the development of theories of social accounting.

Covering a broad range of topics on environmental accounting such as endogenous risk and social accounting, money metrics welfare measures, public sector aspects of social accounting, dynamic cost-benefit analysis, and genuine saving, this Handbook will be useful for researchers and graduate students focusing on welfare economics and environmental economics.