ABSTRACT
A National Population-Environment Assessment Report will necessarily include environmental indicators alongside the population indicators discussed above. At this time there are scores of such indicators from which to choose, and no broad consensus on either what is most important or how data should be aggregated to create appropriate indicators. There is, however, a rapidly growing industry of environmental accounting that can provide useful suggestions. The UN Statistical Office is developing a new System for Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA), which can be found in its latest handbook (UNSO, 1993). The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been collecting and publishing handbooks of environmental indicators since 1991 (OECD, 1994). At this writing the World Resources Institute (WRI) has produced a brief but highly useful discussion of environmental indicators, which is summarized here for this discussion (Hammond et al, 1995).
