Alternative calculations of a sustainable national income for the Netherlands according to Hueting

Environmental valuation and sustainable national income according to Hueting

“…As a very rough estimate of sustainable world income Tinbergen and Hueting (1991) arrive at a figure of 50 per cent of current world income. The provisional results of the study on an SNI for the Netherlands are of similar magnitude (Verbruggen et al, 2001). This means that roughly half our present production and consumption depends on unsustainable use of the environment.…”

Why environmental sustainability can most probably not be attained with growing production

“…In Section 7 it is concluded that a series of NIs minus asyms should be published alongside the standard NIs. (7) A sustainable production level with available technology is about 50% lower than the current level, both for the world: see Tinbergen and Hueting [12] and for the Netherlands: see Verbruggen et al [13]. From this it follows that eSNI has to grow more than twice as fast as NI in order to reduce the distance between NI and eSNI.…”

“…A first rough estimate of the SNI for the world in 1991 by Tinbergen and Hueting [12] arrives at about 50% of the production level of the world: the world income. The Institute of Environmental Studies estimate for The Netherlands in 2001 also arrived at about 50% of the production level or national income of The Netherlands; see Verbruggen et al [13]. That corresponds with the production level in the early seventies.…”

The future of the Environmentally sustainable national income

“…A first rough estimate of the eSNI for the world by Tinbergen and Hueting arrives at roughly fifty percent of the production level of the world: the world income (Tinbergen/Hueting 1991). Estimates for The Netherlands also arrive at about fifty percent of the production level or national income of The Netherlands (Verbruggen et al 2001;Hueting/de Boer 2001). In the period 1990 to 2005 the distance between NI and eSNI increased by thirteen billion euro or 10 percent.…”