Valeria Costantini - Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts

Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts

National Accounting Matrices of Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) tables are used to analyze a range of environmental pressures and economic data resulting from consumption and production patterns helping us gain a far better notion of the consequences of individuals, households and firms actions for the world we live in. This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of hybrid environmental and economic accounts. The perspective of environmental accounting for the analysis of the relationships between the economic and environmental systems, especially regarding the satellite accounts like NAMEA, is relatively recent, and partly derives from the conceptual and applied deficits that have emerged during the setting up of green GDP or GNP measures as alternative measures of accounting.

NAMEA provides a comprehensive and integrated picture of the economic system in association with the environmental system (physical pressures such as emissions) by a sector classification. This book is an integrated collection of complementary papers that revolve around the issue of environment-economic accounting. In the first part a historical background and empirical issues related to the NAMEA-type table definitions and estimations open the book, followed by some applications and analyses mainly applied to a sub-national level. The second part opens the window to international case studies for different EU countries and studies with methodological insights.

These policy-oriented, original works are primarily from an applied perspective, although theoretical aspects are also fully developed. The book should be of use to Environmental and Ecological economics students and researchers, as well as those studying the more general field of Environment studies.

Valeria Costantini is currently lecturer in Environmental Economics and Urban Economics and assistant professor at the University of Roma Tre, Italy.

Massimiliano Mazzanti is currently lecturer in Environmental Economics and associate professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Anna Montini is assistant professor in Economics and lecturer in Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Routledge studies in ecological economics

1 Sustainability Networks

Cognitive tools for expert collaboration in social-ecological systems

Janne Hukkinen

2 Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands

Aletta Bonn, Tim Allot, Klaus Hubaceck and Jon Stewart

3 Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics

Northwest coast sustainability

Ronald L. Trosper

4 Environment and Employment

A reconciliation

Philip Lawn

5 Philosophical Basics of Ecology and Economy

Malte Faber and Reiner Manstetten

6 Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions

Theory and measurement

Joo F.D. Rodrigues, Alexandra P.S. Marques and Tiago M.D. Domingos

7 Environmental Social Accounting Matrices

Theory and applications

Pablo Martnez de Anguita and John E. Wagner

8 Greening the Economy

Integrating economics and ecology to make effective change

Bob Williams

9 Sustainable Development

Capabilities, needs, and well-being

Edited by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Frhmann

10 The Planet in 2050

The Lund discourse of the future

Edited by Jill Jger and Sarah Cornell

11 Bioeconomics

Edited by Mauro Bonaiuti

12 Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Agriculture in the New

Europe

Post-Communist transition and accession to the European Union

S. Serban Scrieciu

13 Waste and Recycling

Theory and Empirics

Takayoshi Shinkuma and Shunsuke Managi

14 Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange

Fetishism in a zero-sum world

Alf Hornborg

15 The Metabolic Pattern of Societies

Where economists fall short

Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Alevgl H. Sorman

16 Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century

Markets, geopolitics and corridors

Edited by Jos Mara Marn-Quemada, Javier Garca-Verdugo and Gonzalo Escribano

17 Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts

Edited by Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini

Hybrid Economic- Environmental Accounts

Edited by Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini

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Hybrid economic-environmental accounts/edited by Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Environmental auditing. 2. National incomeAccounting.

3. Environmental economics. I. Costantini, Valeria. II. Mazzanti,

Massimiliano. III. Montini, Anna.

TD194.7.H93 2011

363.736-dc23

2011023141

ISBN: 978-0-415-59421-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-15351-2 (ebk)

La science manipule les choses et renonce les habiter. Elle sen donne des modles internes et, oprant sur ces indices ou variables les transformations permises par leur dfinition, ne se confronte que de loin en loin avec le monde actuel.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Lil et lesprit, 1964)

Contents

VALERIA COSTANTINI, MASSIMILIANO MAZZANTI AND ANNA MONTINI

ANGELICA TUDINI AND GIUSY VETRELLA

PETER J. STAUVERMANN

VALERIA COSTANTINI, MASSIMILIANO MAZZANTI AND ANNA MONTINI

ELISA BONAZZI AND MICHELE SANSONI

ALESSANDRA LA NOTTE AND SILVANA DALMAZZONE

RENATO MARRA CAMPANALE AND ALDO FEMIA

JOS MANUEL RUEDA-CANTUCHE

GIOVANNI MARIN, MASSIMILIANO MAZZANTI AND ANNA MONTINI

MIGUEL NGEL TARANCN AND PABLO DEL RO

ANASTASIA BASINA, CHARALAMBOS ECONOMIDIS AND ATHANASIOS SFETSOS

MILAN ASN AND FUSAKO TSUCHIMOTO MENKYNA

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Anastasia Basina studied Business Administration (2006) at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a Masters degree in Economics (2009) from the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University, Athens. During her postgraduate studies, she specialized in the field of renewable energy technologies and their impact on the environment and the Greek economy. She is also a member of the Greek Chamber of Commerce and since March 2010 has been responsible for the department of economics in the field of PV-Systems, in one of the pioneering solar and wind system companies in Greece.