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Environmentally Sustainable National Income (eSNI)according to the definition by Roefie Hueting |
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| Alongside of standard national income and “the” economic growth it is useful to have a figure for environmentally sustainable national income and sustainable economic growth. This site provides some information on eSNI. | |
| Foundation | Foundation
for research on Sustainable National Income (FSNI)
Members of the Board (PDF) |
| Introduction |  For
forty years Dr. Hueting (1929) has worked on a framework for the estimation
of a sustainable national income (SNI) as an indicator of the production
level that does not threaten living conditions for future generations.
In 1969, he founded the Department of Environmental Statistics at Statistics
Netherlands. In 1974, he published
New Scarcity and Economic Growth.
More welfare through less production?, a seminal study about the greening
of national income. In 1991 Jan Tinbergen and Roefie Hueting published
a first rough estimate of Sustainable World Income in a paper for the 1992
Rio conference. In 1992, Statistics Netherlands and WWF published his Methodology
for the Calculation of SNI. In 1999, an International Symposium on
his work was held at the Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. In 2001 the
World Bank organised a seminar on the book Economic Growth and Valuation
of the Environment: a Debate, which contains, among other things, an
estimate of SNI for the Netherlands. Hueting presented papers on the SNI
at seminars sponsored by the WB, OECD and WSSD where the delegates have
strongly recommended that SNI estimates be developed for more countries.
In texts before June 2007 the abbreviation "SNI" is used but henceforth
"eSNI" is to be preferred since the term "sustainability" has been collecting
all kinds of other aspects that are not included in Hueting's definition. |
| Theory | Selected List of English publications by Roefie Hueting (1969-2007) |
| Introduction
to the theory of eSNI, a macro indicator for sustainable development
(Paper for the OECD Global Project - Measuring the Progress of Societies, Conference, June 27-30 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. See also this text of the presentation.) |
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| The
Theoretical Basis for Estimating SNI
(Speech for the World Bank Seminar, October 1, 2001) |
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| Why environmental sustainability can most probably not be attained with growing production (2008) (PDF), Paper prepared for the conference: “Economic de-growth for ecological sustainability and social equity”, Paris, 18-19 April 2008, sponsored by the European Society for Ecological Economics (with the presentation) | |
| GNP and Market Prices: Wrong Signals for Sustainable Economic Success that Mask Environmental Destruction, by Jan Tinbergen and Roefie Hueting, In: R. Goodland, H. Daly, S. El Serafy and B. von Droste zu Hulshoff (eds.), Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development: Building on Brundtland, Ch 4: 51-57. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, 1991. Also published in: R. Goodland et al. (eds.), Population, Technology and Lifestyle: The Transition to Sustainability, Ch. 4: 52-62. Island Press, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and UNESCO, Washington, D.C., 1992. Also published in: Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development: Building on Brundtland. R. Goodland et al. (eds.), Environment Working Paper 46, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. | |
| Table of contents of Van Ierland et al. (2001) (Hueting Congress 1999) | |
| Envrironmental evaluation and Sustainable National Income according to Hueting, by Hueting and De Boer, 2001, chapter 2 in Van Ierland et al. (2001) (PDF). Advised reading as the key discussion at length with the actual calculation for The Netherlands | |
| An Appreciation of Dr. Roefie Hueting’s Ecological Work, by Robert Goodland, chapter 12 in Van Ierland et al. (2001) (PDF). | |
| Rejoinders to symposium authors, by Roefie Hueting, chapter 13 in Van Ierland et al. (2001) (PDF). This is highly advised reading since the discussion clarifies the many misunderstandings that frequently crop up. | |
| The concept of environmental function and its valuation, by Roefie Hueting, Lucas Reijnders, Bart de Boer, Jan Lambooy, Huib Jansen (1998), original, published in Ecological Economics 25 (1), 31-5. Correction on the Nature article by Costanza et al., with some reading notes, August 2007 | |
| Sustainability is an objective concept, by Roefie Hueting, Lucas Reijnders (1998), original, published in Ecological Economics, 27(2), 139-47 | |
| The use of the discount rate in a cost-benefit analysis for different uses of a humid tropical forest area (1991), published in Ecological Economics 3, 43-57 | |
| Broad sustainability contra sustainability: the proper construction of sustainability indicators, by Roefie Hueting and Lucas Reijnders (2004), original, also published in Ecological Economics, 50 (3-4), 249-260 | |
| Sustainable National Income and Multiple Indicators for Sustainable Development, Bart de Boer and Roefie Hueting, in OECD Measuring sustainble development, 2004 | |
| Sustainable National Income: A Trend Analysis for the Netherlands for 1990-2000, by M.W. Hofkes, R. Gerlagh and V. Linderhof (2004), Institute for Environmental Studies, Report R-04/02, June 28, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1009284 | |
| Sustainable National Income, by Onno Kuik, Institute for Environmental Studies (VU, Amsterdam), written for the Overview of Advanced Tools for Sustainability Assessment of the “Sustainability A-Test” project of the European Union, DG Research, see http://ivm5.ivm.vu.nl/sat/ (6 April 2006). | |
| Frequently Asked Questions on Hueting’s SNI concept (Stauvermann 2007 PDF) | |
| General | The SNI, an indicator for environmenal sustainability (August 2006 PDF) |
| Three persistent myths in the environmental debate (October 1991 PDF), also published in Ecological Economics 1996, 18(2): 81-88, and Van Ierland et al. (2001:78-89) | |
| Contribution to "Beyond GDP", October 19 2007. See also www.beyond-gdp.eu | |
| The parable of the carpenter. Introduction for the workshop Valuation Methods for Green National Accounting: a Practical Guide, organized by The World Bank, U.N. Statistical Office and Ecological Economics, Washington, D.C., March 20-22, 1996 (PDF) | |
| Speculating about the relationship between art and science (May 2007 PDF) | |
| Roefie Hueting and Sustainable National Income, by Thomas Cool (2001), translation of ESB, August 24 2001, p652-653. | |
| A Normative Justification of Roefie Hueting's Sustainable National Income, by Peter Stauvermann, draft 2005, published IJEES 2006 | |
| Sustainable National Income, A Prerequisite for Sustainability, chapter 3 in B. van der Zwaan and A. Petersen (eds), Sharing the Planet, Eburon Academic Publishers, Delft, 2003 (Pugwash book) | |
| Innovative
Statistics to Improve our Notion of Reality, by Henk van Tuinen
(Paper for the OECD Global Project - Measuring the Progress of Societies, Conference, June 27-30 2007, Istanbul, Turkey) |
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| The Old Man and the SNI. A review of advance and adversity in Hueting’s research in sustainable national income (SNI), economic growth and the new scarcity from the environment, by Thomas Colignatus June 2008, MPRA 9152 | |
| Focus | Highlights in research |
| United Nations Global 500 Award in 1994 | |
| This site | This website is supported for Dr. Hueting. Contact rhig AT hetnet DOT nl |