National Environmental Accounting Database  

The National Environmental Accounting Database (NEAD), compiles detailed information for 134 countries about the full array of resources that underlie economies, including environmental flows (sunlight, rainfall), natural capital stocks (soil, water, forests, fish), mined materials (metals, fuels) and economically transformed goods and services (agricultural commodities, manufactured goods, services). Data for commodities and trade flows are from 2000, and long-term average data are used for climate and hydrology flows.

Paper describing development of the database:

Sweeney, S., M.J. Cohen, D.M. King and M.T. Brown. 2007. Creation of a Global Emergy Database for Standardized National Emergy Synthesis. In (ed. M.T. Brown), Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference. Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL.

Papers with analysis of NEAD data:

M.J. Cohen, S. Sweeney, D.M. King and M.T. Brown. 2007. Soil, Water, Fish and Forests: Natural Capital in the Wealth of Nations. In (ed. M.T. Brown), Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference. Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL.

King, D., M.J. Cohen, S. Sweeney, and M.T. Brown. 2007. Comparative Analysis of Indicators of Well-being Using Environmental Accounting. In (ed. M.T. Brown), Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference. Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL.

M.J. Cohen, S.Sweeney, D. King, G. Shepherd and M.T. Brown. 2009. Environmental Accounting of National Economic Systems of West African Dryland Countries within a Global Context. Synthesis Report to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

M.T. Brown, M.J. Cohen S. Sweeney. 2009. Predicting national sustainability: The convergence of energetic, economic and environmental realities. Ecological Modelling 220(23): 3424-3438.

Link to Database Resource page