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September 1996

Accounting for National Resources in Ecuador: Contrasting Methodologies, Conflicting Results

World Bank Group
This case study, Accounting for National Resources in Ecuador: Contrasting Methodologies, Conflicting Results, published by the World Bank, examines natural capital depletion in Ecuador from 1971 to 1990, corresponding with an oil boom in the 1970s followed by economic stagnation in the 1980s. Two natural resource accounting (NRA) methodologies are utilized to measure the economic value of natural capital depletion in the petroleum sector: the Depreciation Method and the User Cost Method.
January 2000

Integrating Forest Resources into the System of National Accounts in Maharashtra, India

One Planet Network
The objective of this case study is to construct forest resource accounts for the state of Maharashtra, India, and incorporate the value of depletion and degradation of forest resources into the system of national accounts (SNA).
April 1996

Natural Resource Accounting: A Case Study of Zimbabwe

This study assesses and analyses the ‘user cost’ and ‘net price’ methods of calculating the value of natural resource depreciation, thereby contributing to the continued quest for the most appropriate way to incorporate the degradation of natural capital into national income accounting procedures. On the basis of this assessment, the net price method is used to adjust the national accounts of Zimbabwe for depletion of forests, soils, and mineral resources, for the period 1980 to 1989.
March 2017

Harnessing Opportunity: Wastewater as a Managed Resource

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Global Programme of Action (GPA), Global Wastewater Initiative

Wastewater is a valuable resource that we need to harness. That is the key message in a new publication from UN Environment, the Global Programme of Action and the Global Wastewater Initiative.

Georgia - Promote Resource Efficient Consumption and Production for SMEs

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Georgia

Georgia commits to introduce resource efficient production and consumption (REPC) concept in order to promote the transition towards green economy by decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and resource depletion.

May 2016

Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications

International Resource Panel (IRP), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
This report Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications has been produced by the UNEP’s International Resource Panel in response to a request by leaders of the G7 nations in the context of efforts to promote resource efficiency as a core element of sustainable development.
February 2003

The Contribution of Minerals to Sustainable Economic Development: Mineral Resource Accounts in Namibia

climate finance blending
This report addresses the issue of sustainable development in Namibia, an economy dependent on mineral resources. While mineral wealth can provide countries with an opportunity for economic development, resource abundance does not necessarily lead to economic prosperity. In Namibia, the mining sector is critical to the economy and mineral assets form a major source of national wealth. However, the national accounts give a distorted picture of economic health because they record the contribution of mining to GDP but not to the simultaneous depletion of mineral wealth.
May 2016

Economic Accounting of Mineral Resources in Botswana

Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES)
This case study quantifies the major physical and monetary trends in resource stocks for five major minerals in Botswana as well as provides estimates of the rent generated and the national mineral wealth and depletion. While Botswana has thus far successfully converted mineral rents to fiscal revenues and invested them in education, health care, and other forms of assets, the study finds that the peak of the economic contribution of minerals appears to have passed and the economic importance of minerals is likely to decline in future. It is, therefore, important to recognize that economic diversification and policy changes will be required in response to these changing circumstances.
November 2012

Green growth and the efficient use of natural resources

Energy Economics (Elsevier)

The concept of “green growth” can be fruitfully connected to concepts and theories in neoclassical economics including market externalities, Ricardian and Hotelling rents, and policies that would correct externalities such as Pigovian taxes or a cap and trade system set to achieve emissions reduc

23 May 2018
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Environmental Resource Economists Convene at WCERE in June

Ben Groom, Thomas Sterner
Ben Groom and Thomas Sterner discuss the influence of Environmental & Resource Economist (ERE) research on policy in advance of the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) taking place from 25-29 June in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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