Fregional sustainnability accounting and the environmental-economic balance of payments

摘要

Trade induces not only the exchange of money and goods and services between nations. Both directly and/or incorporated in traded goods, resources and environmental pressures are exchanged. It is the aim of this paper to present a way of linking the environmental pressure related to trade, to flows of money and products between nations. After a brief introduction of the Sustainable Economy Indices - a set of indices measuring macroeconomic sustainability - the method of the environmental-economic balance of payments is presented. The accounting system underlying the environmental-economic is outlined and accounts for Austria are calculated.