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Alternative accounting systems to GDP/GNP

· "...provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world. Using 32

performance indicators across 11 issue categories, the EPI ranks 180 countries on environmental

health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national scale of how close

countries are to established environmental policy targets. The EPI offers a scorecard that

highlights leaders and laggards in environmental performance and provides practical guidance

for countries that aspire to move toward a sustainable future."

· "...the world’s largest cost of living database. Numbeo is also a crowd-sourced global database

of quality of life informations including housing indicators, perceived crime rates, and quality

of healthcare, among many other statistics."

· "...a framework that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive

and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment and

the stocks and changes in stocks of environmental assets, as they bring benefits to humanity. It

contains the internationally agreed standard concepts, definitions, classifications, accounting rules

and tables for producing internationally comparable statistics and accounts. The SEEA framework

follows a similar accounting structure as the System of National Accounts (SNA). The framework

uses concepts, definitions and classifications consistent with the SNA in order to facilitate the

integration of environmental and economic statistics. The SEEA is a multi-purpose system that

generates a wide range of statistics, accounts and indicators with many different potential analytical

applications. It is a flexible system that can be adapted to countries' priorities and policy needs

while at the same time providing a common framework, concepts, terms and definitions."

Alternative accounting systems to GDP/GNP

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are themselves a type of indicator.

One particular measure for the SDGs is also one of the more well-developed environmental indicators in general: the Gap Frame: A Safe Space for All