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  • Putting biodiversity into the national accounts: Creating a new paradigm for economic decisions

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    Author(s)
    Vardon, Michael
    Keith, Heather
    Obst, Carl
    Lindenmayer, David
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Keith, Heather
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    Economics has long taken precedence over the environment in both governmental and business decision making, with the System of National Accounts and the indicator GDP coming to represent much that is wrong with the current environmental conditions. Increasing recognition of the environmental damage human activity causes and that human well-being depends on biodiversity and ecosystems means that new systems to measure and sustainably manage the world are needed. Integrating the environment into national accounts has been suggested as a way to improve information but so far impact on decision making is limited. This outlook ...
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    Economics has long taken precedence over the environment in both governmental and business decision making, with the System of National Accounts and the indicator GDP coming to represent much that is wrong with the current environmental conditions. Increasing recognition of the environmental damage human activity causes and that human well-being depends on biodiversity and ecosystems means that new systems to measure and sustainably manage the world are needed. Integrating the environment into national accounts has been suggested as a way to improve information but so far impact on decision making is limited. This outlook needs to change. Using examples from Australia and Botswana, we show how integrating information on biodiversity, resource use and the economy via accounting can help create a new decision-making paradigm and enable a new policy framing with spending on biodiversity conservation and sustainability seen as an investment, not a cost.
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    Journal Title
    Ambio
    Volume
    48
    Issue
    7
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1114-z
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Ambio: a journal of the human environment 48, pages 726–731 (2019). Ambio: a journal of the human environment is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Environment and Resource Economics
    Environmental Sociology
    Applied Economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397805
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