ENVIRONMENT‐ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING AND INDICATORS OF THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES

Deborah Vaughn Nestor and Carl Pasurka

Review of Income and Wealth, 1995, vol. 41, issue 3, 265-287

Abstract: In this paper, we define environmental protection (EP) activities in the context of an input‐output (I‐O) framework. The U.S. I‐O table is adjusted to separate inputs purchased by various economic sectors to abate pollution. We use I‐O concepts and the I‐O matrix adjusted for EP activities to derive a matrix of inputs to EP activities, which is independent of the matrix of inputs to traditional economic activities. This matrix is the basis for deriving measures of the economic importance of EP activities, including the size of EP activities relative to GNP and direct employment and indirect employment attributable to EP activities.

Date: 1995
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