Taking Nature Into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome Toward a Sustainable National Income

by Wouter Van Dieren

Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy are based on a number of factors - none of which, however, acknowledge the degradation of natural resources. Continued deterioration of the environment is leading us closer to crisis, while policymakers and the public base their decisions on dangerously incomplete information.
In Taking Nature into Account, a number of the world's leading experts state the ethical, historical, economic, and ecological arguments for including environmental factors when measuring fiscal health. Initiated by the Club of Rome (an international group of influential businesspeople, statesmen, and scientists), and written in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature, the report reviews existing methodologies and makes recommendations for adjusting the way we think about and measure the economy.

350 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 1995

About the author

Wouter van Dieren ( Eindhoven , 15 April 1941 ) is a Dutch journalist, social psychologist, landscape painter, entrepreneur and environmentalist .

He was director of the Institute for Environmental and System Analysis (IMSA), an independent consultancy and think tank in the field of sustainability and innovation, founded in 1985 and terminated after the bankruptcy in May 2015. He also holds more than forty positions.