Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek An environmental module and the complete system of national accounts
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A linkage between economic environmental data and the National Accounts is often limited to the production accounts. This paper argues that the consequences of econornic actions on ecosystems and vice versa do not only relate to production processes, but also to other parts of the System of National Accounts (SNA). The module in this paper distinguishes both environmental matter accounts (including 'free' gifts of nature as well as various types of 'free' disposals) and environmental assets accounts (i.e. ecosystems). One should begin with relating volume flows of environmental matter to the standard economic accounts. This is done in a so-called National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA), a format which incorporates all (simplified) accounts of the next SNA in a flexible way