Measuring Sustainable Development
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Measuring Sustainable Development

Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Frameworks

The papers in this conference proceedings address the various conceptual, measurement and statistical policy issues that arise when applying accounting frameworks to the concept of sustainable development.
Publication Date :
07 July 2004
DOI :
10.1787/9789264020139-en
 
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The New Zealand Experience with Environmental Accounting Frameworks in Measuring Inter-relationships between the Economy Society and the Environment You do not have access to this content

Authors:
Chase O'Brien
Pages :
199–207
DOI :
10.1787/9789264020139-14-en

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New Zealand is carrying out an environmental statistical programme to develop natural resource and sustainability measures. Recent work has concentrated on developing natural resource accounts (for forestry, water, energy and fish) and producing a discussion document on New Zealand Sustainable Development Indicators. This paper discusses the detail of these and other environmental statistics that have...