Accounting for environmental assets.

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Title: Accounting for environmental assets.
Authors: Repetto, R.
Source: Scientific American. Jun92, Vol. 266 Issue 6, p94. 6p. 2 Color Photographs, 2 Graphs.
Subjects: Natural resources
Abstract: States that accounting frameworks used by economists assign no economic value to changes in natural resource stocks. The 50-year-old framework standardized in the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA); Origin of the current system of national accounts; Study of conditions in Costa Rica; Various economic frameworks.
Database: Engineering Source
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Abstract:States that accounting frameworks used by economists assign no economic value to changes in natural resource stocks. The 50-year-old framework standardized in the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA); Origin of the current system of national accounts; Study of conditions in Costa Rica; Various economic frameworks.
ISSN:00368733
DOI:10.1038/scientificamerican0692-94