@article{oai:bunkyo.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003211,
 author = {中條, 安芸子},
 journal = {情報研究, Information and Communication Studies},
 month = {1999-01-01, 2011-02-22},
 note = {What traditional economic theories have ignored are natural resources and wastes which are obtained from and wasted outside the circular flow of the economy. However, various environmental issues are fatal to human beings, to say nothing of economic activities.
　The first step for sustainable development is to build a circular economic flow including wastes. In order to evaluate environmental policies, which are direct regulations or incentives such as certain taxation, we must quickly organize statistics for capturing flows of recycling------which sector buys and reuses wastes from other sectors as inputs, how much they demand them, and as a result, how much waste is recycled in total.
　But the difficulty in constructing recycling statistics is that waste, by definition, has no economic value(or money value).
　In this paper, we review how economics deal with environment(including external diseconomy), the present statistics for waste in Japan, and individual firms from various industries which try to promote recycling.
　Desirable recycling statistics would have the following features.
　First, they are required to describe what kind of wastes need recycling. We must be careful of the measurement unit because some efforts for recycling do not always result in a decline in the amount of wastes. Second, they must be able to follow any changes in the state of the environment, technologies for reuse or recycling of wastes, and the rate of recycling. Third, they should flexibly deal with new kinds of wastes because innovations in production and recycling technology give rise to other recyclable goods. Finally, they must capture the effect of recycling and environmental policies, which are related to the second point.
　We can find a partially similar way of thinking for evaluating recycling in System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting(SEEA). However, it is not complete and still far from being usable for economic analysis.},
 pages = {117--126},
 title = {経済学における環境問題とリサイクル統計のあり方},
 volume = {21},
 year = {}
}