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Article: Accounting for Subsoil Mineral Resources.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Survey of Current Business
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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LAST SUMMER, A blue-ribbon panel of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council completed a congressionally mandated review of the work that the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) had published on integrated economic and environmental accounts. The panel's final report commended BEA for its initial work in producing a set of sound and objective prototype accounts. The November 1999 issue of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS contained an article by William D. Nordhaus, the Chair of the Panel, that presented an overview of the major issues and findings and a reprint of chapter 5, "Overall Appraisal of Environmental Accounting in the United States," from the ...