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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 (NI) it is useful to have a figure for environmentally sustainable national income (eSNI). The relevant indicator is the distance to environmental sustainability eΔ = NI - eSNI. This site provides some information on eSNI. | |
| Foundation | Foundation
for research on Sustainable National Income (FSNI)
Members of the Board (PDF) |
| Introduction |  For
more than fifty 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 was asked to create the Department of Environmental Statistics
at CBS Statistics Netherlands, with the explicit purpose to correct the figure
of national income for damages to the environment. 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, CBS Statistics Netherlands and WWF published
his Methodology for the Calculation of SNI. In 1999, an International
Symposium on his work was held at the KNAW Royal 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 irrelevant for ecological survival and that
are not included in Hueting's definition. In 2018 CBS Statistics Netherlands
included a preliminary estimate of eSNI 2015 as an element in its broad
monitor for welfare. |
| Data | Excel sheet with NI and eSNI and their distance, for the Netherlands 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, see IVM below |
| Book | National Accounts and environmentally Sustainable National Income, Hueting and De Boer, May 27 2019, cover front and back 1 2 |
 Available at
Eburon.nl
EUR 27.50 for a hardcopyAvailable from University of Chicago Press - titles from Eburon Sheets presentation July 11 2019, as pptx or pdf English or Dutch Video book presentation and lecture July 11 2019 (Dutch), photo's (courtesy by CBS Statistics Netherlands) Book webpage |
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| Thesis | New Scarcity and Economic Growth. More welfare through less production?, 1974, English translation North-Holland 1980 (full PDF excl. tables). While the thesis develops the notion of environmental functions and shows that their valuation is not possible, Hueting later in 1986b and 1989b finds a valuation method by using sustainability. (See the Dutch original.) |
| Congress | 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 it clarifies the many misunderstandings that frequently arise. | |
| Monitor BW | See here on the page in Dutch. |
| Theory | Selected List of English publications by Roefie Hueting (1969-2013). See also the page at RePEc that mentions only a few journals. |
| Environmentally Sustainable National Income: Indispensable Information for Attaining Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Values, Volume 22, Number 1, February 2013 , pp. 81-100 (20), Ingenta | |
| 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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| Report of the World Bank Seminar, October 1, 2001, by J. Hecht. Cover and photograph | |
| Why environmental sustainability can most probably not be attained with growing production (2008, rev 2009) (PDF), To appear in the Journal of Cleaner Production, 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. | |
| Note for professor Elim Salim, in cooperation with Nizam A. Yunus, Jakarta, March 22 1986, also presented at the 5th UNEP / World Bank workshop, Paris, November 20-21 1986. First use of the vertical demand curve | |
| 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 | |
| Frequently Asked Questions on Hueting’s SNI concept, by Stauvermann 2007 | |
| How to correct wrong information about economic growth, DeGrowth conference, Barcelona 2010 (see the oral sessions) | |
| Why environmental sustainability can most probably not be attained with growing production, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 18, Issue April 6 2010, pages 525-530 | |
| Environmentally Sustainable National Income and Other Ways to Improve Information About Growth - Ekologicznie zrównowa?ony dochód narodowy i inne sposoby metody poprawy jako?ci informacji na temat wzrostu gospodarczego, PROBLEMY EKOROZWOJU – Problems of sustainable development 2011, vol. 6, no 1, 31-46 | |
| Our planet is threatened by a wrong belief in a wrongly formulated growth, Speech for the congress Jenseits des Wachstums, Berlin May 20-22 2011 and powerpoint presentation. | |
| The future of the Environmentally sustainable national income, Ökologisches Wirtschaften 4 2011, p 30-35 | |
| Five Ways to Combat Misleading Information about Economic Growth, Chapter 1, pp. 1-29, in Richard L. Bertrand (ed) (2011), Theories and Effects of Economic Growth, Nova Publishers | |
| Contribution to "Beyond GDP", October 19 2007. See also www.beyond-gdp.eu | |
| Update in the European Union
project "Beyond GDP", Environmentally
Sustainable National Income (eSNI),
asymmetric entries and other ways to improve information about economic growth. July 2012 |
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| Sustainable national income: information for attaining sustainability, Management Research Review, Vol. 34 Iss: 11, pp.1190 - 1201 | |
| Memo on eSNI 2010 and 2015, by Colignatus, June 15 2017 | |
| 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) | |
| 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 / January 2009, MPRA 12690 | |
| Letter to the Stiglitz Commission, by T.S. thanking B. de Boer, July 5 2009 | |
| Some comments w.r.t. Hueting's analysis, by Thomas Colignatus, January 31 2012, w.r.t. Hueting's article in Ökologisches Wirtschaften 4 2011, p 30-35 | |
| IVM | Sustainable National Income 2005: Analysis for the Netherlands - Trend and decomposition analysis of a Sustainable National Income in 2005 according to Hueting's methodology, R.B. Dellink & M.W. Hofkes, 2008, report R-08-06 (pdf) |
| 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) | |
| 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 (pdf), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1009284 | |
| Sustainable National Income: A Trend Analysis for the Netherlands for 1990 - 1995, Marjan Hofkes, Reyer Gerlagh, Wietze Lise and Harmen Verbruggen, R-02/02 March, 2002 (pdf) | |
| Final report on calculations of a sustainable national income according to Hueting's methodology, H. Verbruggen (ed) (2000), Report O-00/10, pp. 207 Amsterdam: Institute for Environmental Studies | |
| Norms | Background reports in Dutch for the derivation of envionmental standards, by Peter Bosch in 1995 on fossil fuels and by Bart de Boer in 2004 on climate, ozone layer, eutrophication and dispersion, and work report |
| Focus | Highlights in research |
| United Nations Global 500 Award in 1994 In 1990, Jan Tinbergen took the initiative for a nomination to the UNEP Sasakawa prize, and eventually UNEP awarded Hueting with the Global 500 Award in 1994. See the recommendations that Tinbergen collected in 1990 from Robert Goodland, Herman Daly, Gerald O. Barney, Paul Ekins and Theo Potma, with also names of dignitaries who might be contacted for more information. Tinbergen did not include a recommendation himself because he fealt that these should be done by persons more actively involved in the research on environmental economics. Tinbergen expressed his agreement on content (without view on achievement) by the joint paper with Hueting in 1991 (referred to above). | |
| ANP about Hueting, May 2007 | |
| Photo | May 1 1974, Prince Bernhard (World
Wildlife Fund) receives a copy of the thesis from the author. (Photo: National
Archives, wikimedia commons) |
| About | This website is supported for Dr. Hueting. Contact rhig AT hetnet DOT nl |
