Accounting for nature: a model for building the national environmental accounts of Australia

Source: Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
"Future prosperity requires building a 21st century economy that is profoundly different to that of the 19th and 20th centuries. A 21st century economy needs to account for nature. We need to value the services that nature provides us – clean water, healthy soils, native vegetation – and we need to monitor the health of our natural world. National Environmental Accounts are fundamental to this future. They should be core business of government in the 21st century."