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| Boyd, James. |
| The concept of pollution prevention, or "P2," signifies a new, proactive environmental mindset that targets the causes, rather than the consequences, of polluting activity. While anecdotal evidence suggests that P2 opportunities exist and that many have been pursued, there is also the perception that the pace of P2 is far too slow. To explore that claim--and to shed light on barriers to P2 innovation--this paper presents case studies of industrial P2 projects that were in some way unsuccessful. While based on a very limited sample, the evidence contradicts the view that firms suffer from organizational weaknesses that make them unable to appreciate the financial benefits of P2 investments. Instead, the projects foundered because of significant unresolved... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Pollution prevention; Financial evaluation; Environmental accounting; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q2; L65; O33. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10614 |
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| Boyd, James. |
| Improved environmental accounting is increasingly seen by corporate managers and environmental advocates alike as a necessary complement to improved environmental decision-making within the private sector. This paper develops an economic approach to the evaluation of environmental accounting's benefits and derives the value, and determinants, of improved accounting information in several production and capital budgeting contexts. Using concepts from managerial economics, finance, and organizational theory, the analysis identifies the types of environmental accounting improvement that are most likely to yield significant financial and environmental benefits. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental accounting; Capital investment; Corporate decision-making; Environmental Economics and Policy; M41; Q20; G31. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10609 |
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| Boyd, James; Banzhaf, H. Spencer. |
| This paper advocates consistently defined units of account to measure the contributions of nature to human welfare. We argue that such units have to date not been defined by environmental accounting advocates and that the term "ecosystem services" is too ad hoc to be of practical use in welfare accounting. We propose a definition, rooted in economic principles, of ecosystem service units. A goal of these units is comparability with the definition of conventional goods and services found in GDP and the other national accounts. We illustrate our definition of ecological units of account with concrete examples. We also argue that these same units of account provide an architecture for environmental performance measurement by governments, conservancies, and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental accounting; Ecosystem services; Index theory; Nonmarket valuation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q51; Q57; Q58; D6. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10586 |
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| Longhitano, Davide. |
| The main objective of this communication is to review the theoretical ecosystem and agroecosystem services assessment’s methods and to propose a thermoeconomic approach. The logic of thermoeconomic approach consists in analysing the use of natural resources during the production process, interpreting it as a thermodynamic conversion in order to assess the overall specific energy consumption of the systemic components arriving at estimates of fluxes and energy costs. This study analyses comparatively the main thermoeconomic-based approaches to verify the feasibility of the "energy value" as an appraisal criterion of agroecosystem services. In particularly among the reviewed approaches the Emergy synthesis seems the most appropriate tool to be empirically... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Thermoeconomic approach; Agroecosystem services; Exergy; Emergy; Environmental accounting; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q56; Q57. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124123 |
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