IWP - 2018 NATURAL & HUMAN CAPITAL

CONTENTS

Objectives

To assess health as a measurement of human capital in inclusive wealth accounts.
To expand on constituents of natural capital by incorporating a broad array of credible databases.
To make the IWR2016 explicitly geared towards addressing the policy questions especially for national and regional decision makers.
To provide a learning tool on IW for students in economics and sustainability science.
Institutionalize IWR as for a measurements of sustainable development through creating political buying in.

Background

Many agencies, including the World Bank, UNEP, OECD, and UN Statistical Division remain actively engaged in wealth accounting projects. While such projects may differ in their semantic label or main focus, the institutions overseeing them aim to meet constant international demands for data and information related to wealth accounting and developmental measurement. Among these undertakings, recent Inclusive Wealth Reports (IWR) have been well-received in countries throughout South America, Central America, Africa and Asia for their assessments of the three forms of capital inherent in the overall wealth of nations.
In order to make the IWR more expansive, the 2016 edition will further emphasize the linkages between scientific data and policies and highlight policy implications at local, national, and regional levels. To date, a lack of data availability among project contributors has been a considerable obstacle to creating a more comprehensive report. Throughout the construction of IWR 2016, priority will be placed on extending the outreach activities among project contributors to include greater numbers of organizational collaborators from around the world. IWR 2016 will thus be forged through ample, global, multilateral data sharing and operational collaboration.

Contributors

Director

Shunsuke Managi

Policy Advisory Board

Arico Salvatore, UNESCO
Kazuhiko Takeuchi, UNU
Mette Wilkie, UNEP
Agnès Soucat, WHO

Science Advisory Board

Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Harold Mooney, Stanford University, United States
Anantha Duraiappah, UNESCO MGIEP
Barbara Fraumeni, University of Southern Maine, United States
Hamid Zakri, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Malaysia

Authors

Edward B. Barbier - Colorado State University, United States
David N. Barton - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah - UNESCO, India
Barbara M. Fraumani - NBER, United States
Central University for Finance and Economics, China
Haripriya Gundimeda - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Kristine Grimsrud - Statistics Norway, Norway
Pushpam Kumar - Economy Division, United Nations Environment Programme
Henrik Lindhjem - Menon Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (MERE), Norway
Gang Liu - Statistics Norway, Norway
Shunsuke Managi - Kyushu University, Japan
Ståle Navrud - Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Bharath M. Palavalli - Fields of View Bangaore, India
Srijan Sil - Fields of View Bangaore, India
Rodney BW Smith - University of Minnesota, United States

Review Board

Eli Fenichel - Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, United States
George Halkos - University of Thessaly, Greece
Dale W. Jorgenson – Harvard University, United States
Ramanan Laxminarayan - Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, United States
Mary O'Mahony - King's College London, United Kingdom
Nandan Nawn - TERI University, New Delhi, India
Roy P. Remme - Wageningen University, Netherland
Noelle Eckley Selin - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Mesfin Tilahun - Mekelle University, Ethiopia