Overview
- A unique exercise in environmental accounting in eastern and southern Africa, where governments have been slow to implement SEAA standards
- Provides empirical data for the sustainable value of minerals, forestry, fisheries, and water as well as the indirect (regulating) services of estuaries
- Explains the links between environment and development and, uniquely, integrates policy applications and compilation methodology of environmental accounting
- Shows how to synthesize environmental and national accounting data
- Explains how to deploy environmental accounts as a planning tool
Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE, volume 28)
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Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa. These case studies experiment with implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan nations known to suffer from the ‘resource curse’: their wealth in resources and commodities has allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this cash has not funded crucial developments in infrastructure or education. What’s more, resource-driven economies are highly vulnerable to commodity price mutability. The new measures of wealth deployed here offer more hope for the future in these countries than they themselves would once have allowed for.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Implementing Environmental Accounts
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Eastern and Southern Africa
Editors: Rashid M. Hassan, Eric D. Mungatana
Series Title: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5323-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5322-8Published: 01 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9674-4Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5323-5Published: 02 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-6970
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 220
Topics: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Economics, general