Implementing Environmental Accounts Case Studies from Eastern and Southern Africa /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hassan, Rashid M. (Editor), Mungatana, Eric D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 28
• Subjects: Economics.; Development Economics.; Environmental economics.; Economics/Management Science.; Environmental Economics.; Economics general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5323-5

This report on natural resource and environmental accounting in one of the worlds least developed zones is predicated on a wealth approach to sustainable development that recognizes the need for information on all of a nations assets, including, for example, potable water, as well as how these mig...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Natural Capital, Total Wealth and Sustainable Development in Nambia
• 2. Wildlife accounts
• 3. Accounting for Mineral Resources in Tanzania
• 4. Fisheries Resource Accounts for the Maputo Coastal Districts of Mozambique
• 5. Forest Resoure Accounts for Ethiopia
• 6. Contribution of Ugandas Forestry Sub-Sector to the National Economy
• 7. Accounting for the Value of Ecosystem Assets and their Services
• 8. Valuing Regulating and Supporting Ecosystem Services in the Sub-Tropical Estuaries of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa
• Index.