Environmental accounts provide information on emissions and resource use. Environmental accounts are so-called satellite accounts to the national accounts, which provide a comprehensive framework to present economic data in a coherent, consistent, and internationally comparable manner. Environmental accounts are specifically designed to reveal the pressure the economy puts on the environment, and are therefore an essential input to policy analysis and design (Nordhaus and Kokkelenberg, 1999). The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has been commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to design and build a sustainable development model for Ireland (ISus) that will forecast environmental emissions and resource use for the Republic of Ireland up to 2030. The ISus model is driven by the HERMES model, which projects economic production and consumption per sector (e.g., Fitz Gerald et al., 2002). As with any such model, data are the starting point for the development of ISus (O?Doherty and Tol, 2007). These data are gathered in the environmental accounts. We present new environmental accounts for the Republic of Ireland. The new accounts have a wider coverage than the CSO environmental accounts. Because the new accounts assign emissions and resource use to production, they can readily be used in economic models.

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ESRI_Vol38_No2_Summer2007.pdf	ESRI_Vol38_No2_Summer2007.pdf (0.26 Mb )
ESRI_WorkingPaper_223.pdf	ESRI_WorkingPaper_223.pdf (0.36 Mb )
Enviro_Accounts_Ireland_1990-2005.xls	Enviro_Accounts_Ireland_1990-2005.xls (0.32 Mb )

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Resource Availability:	Public-Open
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Format Of Attached Data Files And Resources	Microsoft Excel worksheet sheet Portable Document Format (PDF)
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The project deals with environmental account for the Republic of Ireland and normally deals with data which is spatially disaggregated to national level.

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