Making nature count : A look back at the UN System of National Accounts’ “environmental turning point”: From the 1980s to the 2010s
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2019
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international organisation sustainable development environment System of National Accounts institutional changeSujets proches
Nurture and nature Nature versus nurture Genetics and environment Nature--Nurture Environment Heredity and environment Environment Ecological science Environmental biology Bionomics Ecological sciences Environment Balance of nature Oecology Biology--Ecology Ecological processes Environment comptabilitéCiter ce document
Yann Bérard, « Making nature count : A look back at the UN System of National Accounts’ “environmental turning point”: From the 1980s to the 2010s », Revue française de science politique, ID : 10670/1.o26dbb
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This article examines the work undertaken by international organizations over the last few decades to mainstream the environment into national accounting. At the crossroads of multiple controversies over how to measure well-being and adapt to economic globalization/regionalization, sustainability (and its environmental stakes) is arguably the most complex challenge faced by the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) today. The question nevertheless arises as to whether attempting to mainstream sustainability values into national accounting should be accompanied by a new breed of statistics, one that focuses more on protecting the environment and the concomitant attempt to move beyond a predatory and inegalitarian capitalist model.