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  title info:
    title: Beyond GDP
    sub title: National Accounting in the Age of Resource Depletion
  name:
    name part: Heun, Matthew Kuperus.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Carbajales-Dale, Michael.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Haney, Becky Roselius.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVII, 201 p. 41 illus., 26 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book uses the metaphor “The economy is society's metabolism” as a springboard to develop a rigorous theoretical framework for a better system of national accounts which goes “Beyond GDP” and is relevant to the age of resource depletion. All stakeholders need a new way to understand our economy in the context of the biosphere’s ability to provide essential natural capital, and the authors suggest that detailed information about materials, energy, embodied energy, and energy intensity should be routinely gathered, analyzed, and disseminated from a centralized location to provide markets and policymakers with a more comprehensive understanding of the biophysical economy. After arguing that the stock of manufactured capital is an important driver of material and energy demands imposed upon the biosphere, a new accounting framework is derived from the laws of thermodynamics to reflect the fact that material and embodied energy accumulate within the capital stock of economic sectors. This framework extends the Energy Input-Output (EI-O) techniques first developed by Bullard, Herendeen, and others to estimate energy intensity of economic products. Implications from the new framework are discussed, including the value of economic metrics for policy-making, the need for physically-based rather than product-based EI-O formulations, a re-assessment of the concept of economic “growth,” and an evaluation of recycling, reuse, and dematerialization. The framework also provides an opportunity to assess an array of definitions for Daly's “steady-state economy” in relation to the ideal of a sustainable economy. The book ends with a list of steps to be taken toward creating a more comprehensive system of national accounts: · National accounting agencies worldwide should develop and maintain balance sheets of both natural and manufactured capital in addition to national income statements, · All stocks and inter-sector flows should be provided in physical as well as financial units…
  table of contents: Introduction: The end of an era -- Accounting for the wealth of nations -- Stocks and flows of materials -- Flows of Direct Energy -- Stocks and flows of embodied energy -- Stocks and flows of economic value -- Energy intensity -- Implications -- Next steps.
  note: by Matthew Kuperus Heun, Michael Carbajales-Dale, Becky Roselius Haney.
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy policy
  subject:
    topic: Energy and state
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Policy, Economics and Management
  subject:
    topic: Energy Economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Urban Ecology
  classification: HD9502-9502.5
  classification: 333.79
  classification: 338.926
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Energy, 26
  identifier: 9783319128207
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12820-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 150511
    record change date: 20151030001616.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-12820-7