Workshop on "Valuing Natural Capital for Sustainable Development" held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 1-3, 1993
Co-sponsored by the Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (CGER) and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBASSE)
WORKSHOP PLANNING GROUP
JOEL DARMSTADTER, Chair, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
EDITH BROWN WEISS, CGER member, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
PIERRE CROSSON, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
ERNST LUTZ, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
MOHAN MUNASINGHE, The World Bank, ICF, M.I.G.A., Washington, D.C.
RAYMOND PRICE, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.
STEPHEN RATTIEN, CGER staff, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
CRAIG SCHIFFRIES, American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia
MIRON STRAF, CBASSE staff, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
MICHAEL TOMAN, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
M. GORDON WOLMAN, CGER chair, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
ALICE KILLIAN, reporter, Boston, Massachusetts
E-AN ZEN, University of Maryland, College Park
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Invited Guests
JESSE AUSUBEL, Rockefeller University, New York, New York
PETER BARTELMUS, United Nations Environment and Energy Statistics, New York, New York
NORMAN BRADBURN, University of Chicago, Illinois
FRANCIS BRETHERTON, University of Wisconsin, Madison
GARRY BREWER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
CAROL CARSON, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
PAUL CRAIG, University of California, Davis
PIERRE CROSSON, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
JOEL DARMSTADTER, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
ROBERT DAVIS, University of Colorado, Boulder
ERIC FISCHER, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
THOMAS LOVEJOY, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
MOHAN MUNASINGHE, The World Bank/ICF/M.I.G.A., Washington, D.C.
RICHARD NORGAARD, University of California, Berkeley
HENRY PESKIN, Edgevale Associates, Silver Spring, Maryland
FRANCIS PIERCE, Michigan State University, East Lansing
FRANK PRESS, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
RAYMOND PRINCE, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C.
CLAUDIA SADOFF, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
CRAIG SCHIFFRIES, American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia
R. DAVID SIMPSON, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
BRIAN SKINNER, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
COURTENAY SLATER, Slater Hall Information Products, Washington, D.C.
ROBERT SOLOW, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
CHARLES WAITE, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C.
CGER Members
M. GORDON WOLMAN, Chair, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
PATRICK R. ATKINS, Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
EDITH BROWN WEISS, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
JACK E. OLIVER, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
FRANK L. PARKER, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
RAYMOND A. PRICE, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
LARRY L. SMARR, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
STEVEN M. STANLEY, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
HELEN INGRAM, University of Arizona, Tucson
CBASSE Members
ROBERT McC. ADAMS, Chair, 1990-1993, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
WILLIAM A. MORRILL, MATHTECH, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
CHRISTOPHER SIMS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
CGER Staff
STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director
STEPHEN PARKER, Associate Executive Director
LORRAINE WOLF, Assistant Executive Director
JEANETTE SPOON, Administrative Officer
ALICE KILLIAN, Reporter
BARBARA SINGLETARY, Administrative Assistant
CBASSE Staff
MIRON STRAF, Director, Committee on National Statistics
The following materials were distributed in advance to participants in the workshop on "Valuing Natural Capital in Planning for Sustainable Development." Items marked with an asterisk are included in this volume.
1. A System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA)
Peter Bartelmus
2. Accounting for Sustainable Growth and Development
Peter Bartelmus
3. Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting—A Case Study for Papua New Guinea
Peter Bartelmus, Ernst Lutz, and Stefan Schweinfest
*4. Valuing the Environment: Methodological Issues of Intergenerational "Green Accounting"
Paul P. Craig and Harold Glasser
*5. Natural Resource and Environmental Accounting in U.S. Agriculture
Pierre Crosson
6. What Use is Biological Diversity?
Eric A. Fischer
7. Conceptual Framework for Regulatory Benefits Assessment
Baruch Fischhoff and Louis Anthony Cox, Jr.
8. Blueprint for a Green Economy
David Pearce, Anil Markandya, and Edward B. Barbier
9. Economic Valuation and the Natural World
David Pearce
10. Alternative Environmental and Resource Accounting Approaches
Henry M. Peskin
*11. Sustainable Resource Accounting
Henry M. Peskin
*12. Soil Quality in Relation to Value and Sustainable Management
Francis J. Pierce
*13. The Feasibility of Incorporating Environmental and Natural Resource Availability Into the National Accounts
Raymond Prince
*14. What Can Policymakers Learn From Natural Resource Accounting?
Robert Repetto
*15. Natural Resource Accounting for the Forestry Sector: Valuation Techniques and Policy Implications in Thailand
Claudia W. Sadoff
*16. Valuing Biodiversity: An Application of "Green Accounting"
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
*17. An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability
Robert Solow
18. Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting—A Case Study for Mexico
Jan Van Tongeren, Stefan Schweinfest, Ernst Lutz, Maria Gomez Luna, and Francisco Guillen Martin
19. Facts, Not Species, are Periled
Julian L. Simon and Aaron Wildavsky, New York Times, May 13, 1993
20. An Index of the Value Goods, Services, and . . . Niceness?
Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, May 19, 1993