Environmental accounts provide information on emissions and resource use. Environmental accounts are so-called satellite accounts to the national accounts, which provide a comprehensive framework to present economic data in a coherent, consistent, and internationally comparable manner. Environmental accounts are specifically designed to reveal the pressure the economy puts on the environment, and are therefore an essential input to policy analysis and design (Nordhaus and Kokkelenberg, 1999). The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has been commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to design and build a sustainable development model for Ireland (ISus) that will forecast environmental emissions and resource use for the Republic of Ireland up to 2030. The ISus model is driven by the HERMES model, which projects economic production and consumption per sector (e.g., Fitz Gerald et al., 2002). As with any such model, data are the starting point for the development of ISus (O?Doherty and Tol, 2007). These data are gathered in the environmental accounts. We present new environmental accounts for the Republic of Ireland. The new accounts have a wider coverage than the CSO environmental accounts. Because the new accounts assign emissions and resource use to production, they can readily be used in economic models.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=64
Resource Keywords	Environmental Accounts Statistics ESRI
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2006-SDM-LS-11
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Socio-Economics
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
Limitations on the use of this Resource	The working papers outlined below should be cited as the original source of this work. The SAFER citation below should be used where the actual environmental accounting dataset is used in work which leads to a printed publication.
Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	3
Project Start Date	Monday 9th January 2006 (09-01-2006)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Monday 1st January 1990 (01-01-1990)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Saturday 31st December 2005 (31-12-2005)
Published on SAFER	Tuesday 29th April 2008 (29-04-2008)
Date of Last Edit	Tuesday 29th April 2008 at 10:27:13 (29-04-2008)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Tuesday 29th April 2008 at 10:19:41 (29-04-2008)

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Description of Geographical Characteristics of This Project or Dataset
The project deals with environmental account for the Republic of Ireland and normally deals with data which is spatially disaggregated to national level.

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The following is a list of projects, datasets, and resources on SAFER-Data from which users downloaded attachments from soon after downloading attachments from this resource Environmental Accounts for the Republic of Ireland: 1990-2005. You can view the full description for projects, datasets, and resources by using the links supplied.

• Ireland's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory View Full Metadata Description
• AQUIRE: Air Quality Forecast and Statistics over Ireland View Full Metadata Description
• Environmental Attitudes, Values and Behaviour in Ireland View Full Metadata Description
• Economy wide material flow analysis and ecological footprint of Ireland View Full Metadata Description
• Environmental Sustainability and Future Settlement Patterns in Ireland View Full Metadata Description

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