ABSTRACT
The National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) contains detailed information on the environment and converts this into a number of summary environmental indicators. In this way, indicators on the economy and the environment are reflected in a single accounting system. At the most aggregate level, NAMEA presents the interrelation between macro-indicators for the economy and the environment. The chapter discusses on the environmental themes in the NAMEA framework. In the NAMEA, the National Accounting Matrix is extended with three accounts on the environment. A substances account, an account for global environmental themes and an account for national environmental themes. The chapter represents an application of the NAMEA in which economic and environmental indicators are compared for various industries and consumption purposes. It concludes with other possible uses and discusses some aspects of the NAMEA's relationship to the interim Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting of the United Nations.
