tailieunhanh - Quantitative Economics How sustainable are our economies by Peter Bartelmus_9

Tham khảo tài liệu 'quantitative economics how sustainable are our economies by peter bartelmus_9', kinh doanh - tiếp thị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 194 10 Diagnosis Has the Economy Behaved Sustainably -------- efficiency structure .volume -------- total Fig. Decomposition of annual changes in carbon dioxide emission the Netherlands 19871998 Source de Haan 2001 with permission by the copyright holder Taylor Francis http . The calculation of direct and indirect environmental impacts and the decomposition of their annual changes into driving forces provide information about the origin and causes of pollution and natural resource use. Such information is useful for setting priorities for environmental protection and natural resource management. It also permits to relate environmental impacts and their changes to the results of economic activities responsible for these impacts. However any assessment of sustainability by showing the delinkage of economic growth from environmental concerns requires comprehensive analysis of all significant environmental impacts. So far almost all input-output studies deal only with selected pollutants and a few energy sources. The reasons are lack of data and time cost constraints for compiling or estimating the data. An aggravating factor is the notorious reluctance of corporations to provide information about their production processes and environmental impacts. On the other hand the policy relevance of input-output analyses and the closeness of input-output tables to the supply use accounts seem to have seduced national accountants into embracing input-output modelling for greening their physical accounts. The revised SEEA-2003 presents thus the backward modelling backcasting of direct and indirect environmental impacts and their decomposition as part of hybrid accounting without discussing the underlying model assumptions United Nations et al. in prep. ch. 4 . There is perhaps some realization that simply juxtaposing environmental statistics and economic indicators in hybrid accounts does not really green the accounts themselves. Further Reading .