Environmental and Economic Accounting for Industry

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-566524-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm

This volume discusses environmental resource accounting in the Indian context

This is one of the first books to discuss environmental accounting in the Indian context. It presents detailed case studies of industries in the country and abroad, discussing the application of standard methodology that has been refined by the authors. The book discusses methodological issues pertaining to shadow pricing, environmentally sustainable industrial development, valuing non-marketable benefits from environmental resources, accounting for industrial pollution in India, environmental regulation in water polluting industries, and case study of the sugar industry. The authors stress that environmental values are essential for designing economic instruments and environmental policy.

LISTS OF TABLES, APPENDICES, FIGURES, BOXES; PREFACE; 1. Introduction; 2. Environmental and Economic Accounting, Some Methodological Issues; 3. Environmentally Sustainable Income and Shadow Prices of Natural Resources; 5. Methods of Measuring Benefits from Industrial Pollution Abatement; 6. Environmental and Economic Accounting for Industrial Pollution: A Case Study of Water polluting Industries in India; 7. Incentives to Industries and Environmental Regulation: Testing of Porter Hypothesis for Indian Manufacturing Industries; 8. Environmental Regulation, Productive Efficiency, and Cost Pollution Abatement: A Case Study for Sugar Industry in India; 9. Shadow Prices of Bad Outputs and Designing Pollutant Specific Taxes; 10. Environmental Policy, Natural Resources, and Resource Accounting in India

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murty, M. N.

Kumar, Surender

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Umweltchemie, Lebensmittelchemie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik