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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

Film from the Award Winning Journey to Planet Earth Series ‘Seas of Grass’

Soil spectroscopy work on Lake Victoria Basin featured in Journey to Planet Earth series film ‘Seas of Grass’, shown on PBS. Screenscope Inc, Washington DC . Seas of Grass. Film from the Award Winning Journey to Planet Earth Series, hosted and narrated byAcademy Award winner Matt Damon.. Learn more

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING OF RESOURCE USE AND DEGRADATION

Environmental accounting, is a method for evaluation of environmental and economic systems on a common basis—so that environmental concerns can be quantitatively integrated into development processes.
We begin at the national scale by diagramming the environmental resource base of the economy. Renewable flows of energy (such as sunlight and rain) are shown coming into a country. These renewable energy sources support production systems, such as forests, subsistence agriculture, lakes and wetlands. However, these production systems can also use up non-renewable resources, such as soil. Acrross this continuum, we also see economic use, such as processing of forest products and crops.
These economic processes use purchased inputs of fuels, goods and services, and export of goods. Money flow is used to purchase imports and is received in exchange for exports. We shall collect data to quantify these flows and convert them all into one type of energy, so that all flows can be compared in the same units.
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