Beyond GDP National Accounting in the Age of Resource Depletion /

• Main Authors: Heun, Matthew Kuperus (Author), Carbajales-Dale, Michael (Author), Haney, Becky Roselius (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 26
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Urban Ecology.

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 eco...

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.