Users and Uses of Environmental Accounts: A Review of Select Developed Countries
This report summarizes the results of a review of countries that have the longest histories of work in the field. The review demonstrates clearly that environmental accounts are policy-relevant. They respond directly to stated policy goals in a number of nations. In other cases, data from the accounts are used as part of the evidence base to monitor targets and policy impact. In others, they feed into analytical research that either leads to policy action or assesses the success of that action