Accounting for environmental assets.
A country can cut down its forests, erode its soils, pollute its aquifers and hunt its wildlife and fisheries to extinction, but its measured income is not affected as these assets disappear. Impoverishment is taken for progress.
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World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
D000818:Animals; D003364:Costa Rica; D004467:Economics; D004777:Environment; D007214:Indonesia; D011640:Public Policy; D014480:United Nations