Sistema de contas ambientais para o Brasil: estimativas preliminares

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to estimate the economic losses due natural resources depletion and depreciation in Brazil and their impact on measures of product and income. For this purpose, à discussion was taken around how National Accounts can incorporate the environmental estimation losses. Environmental Accounts are shown as one type of such incorporation and an example for Brazilian case is elaborated. For this matter it was necessary to use valuation methods, whose theoretica! underpinnings and implicit problems were also discussed in the paper, to estimate monetatily the environmental losses from some activities: mineral extraction, deforestation and industrial pollution.