The EPS enviro-accounting method. An application of environmental accounting principles for evaluation and valuation of environmental impact in product design.

Abstract

A method of valuing various typese of environmental impacts from emissions and use of resources are described and discussed. The Basic principle used is to describe impacts on the environmnent in terms of impacts on one or several safeguard subjects (human health, biodiversity, production, resources and aesthetic values) and value changes in them according to the willingness to pay to restore them to their normal status