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Objectives

One of our purposes is to get you more acquainted on how an environmental accounting system, like RAMEA, could be useful to evaluate the economic and environmental performance of regions and to inform regional policies/strategies about sustainable development, coherently with the tools developed at national level (NAMEA).

The main objectives of these synergic studies have been aimed at defining helpful accounting tools to:

link the economic knowledge on production and consumption activities to the emissions in air exerted on the environment;

point out not only those sectors that exhibit the best economic performance, but also those that are the most eco-efficient;

build a tool useful for reports, studies, scenarios, regional planning;

provide useful indicators for the policy makers to measure, control and forecast key regional performances;

develop a decision-support system within the sustainable development arena (regional plans, programmes strategies, and interventions…);

encourage and facilitate the involvement of the decision makers, who are likely to be more familiar with socio-economic concepts (such as GDP), but who are increasingly being required to pay more attention to the effects of economic activities on the environment;

identify how a region could develop economically and socially without causing environmental damages.

Moreover, RAMEA could be scheduled for different kinds of analyses, to explore some of the possibilities that this type of tool offer to the regional planning/reporting, e.g.: monitoring regional air emissions and eco-efficiency, comparing regional eco-efficiency with the national one (Shift-Share analysis) and understanding the effects and responsibilities of production and consumption chains on the environment.

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