Environment
Green Accounting
Natural Resources and Environmental Accounting in the Czech Republic
| Duration | 1998 - 1999 |
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| Customer | PHARE Regional Environmental programme |
| Abstract | The project goal was to explore the applicability to the Czech territory of methodological approaches for integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Accounting and Modelling developed in the EU. The work was structured in five modules for NAMEA for air, Land use/land cover accounting, Abatement cost curves for air and water pollution, Economic appraisal of natural assets and Scenarios and modelling. Czech environmental policy, like other domains of policy, is strongly oriented by the requirements of anticipated accession to the European Union. The pollutant emissions have substantially decreased since the 1980s. This is in part due to a rapid economic decline in the early 1990s, but also to the restructuration of the industry, and the investment in environmental control. In the land cover/land use accounting module, a “linkage matrix” was constructed which specifies the share of each economic activity type for a particular land cover category. In inventorying natural assets, the map of land monetary values was prepared based on land cover map. The scenario modelling empirical results included one category of environmental pressures: greenhouse gas emissions and included the simulations for a 50-year time horizon. |

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