The U.S. Envrionmental Protection Industry : A Proposed Framework for Assessment

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000017184
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.2 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	The U.S. Envrionmental Protection Industry : A Proposed Framework for Assessment
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
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Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Agency, E. P. (n.d.). The U.S. Envrionmental Protection Industry : A Proposed Framework for Assessment. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: This study defines the goods and services that constitute environmental protection activities in the United States. The U.S. input-output (I-O) table serves as the basis for the definition of environmental protection activities developed in this study. The U.S. environmental protection input-output tables identify the sectors that receive the revenues associated with purchases of goods and services to comply with environmental regulation as well as the sectors that demand environmental protection goods and services. The input-output framework also allows for the development of a measure of the importance of environmental protection activities relative to the U.S. economy. Finally, employment associated with environmental protection activities can be estimated. This study finds that the EP industry is much like the tourism industry in that the purchases associated with complying with environmental programs consists of a diverse collection of products and services. Just as the tourism industry consists of parts of the hotel and restaurant industries, the EP industry includes parts of the construction, chemicals, energy, and engineering services sectors. Also, just as tourism does not account for all economic activity in the hotel and restaurant industries, EP activities do not account for all purchases of construction, chemicals, energy, and engineering services. Because EP activities consist of the activities of several economic sectors and the activities of these sectors are not uniquely for EP, this poses difficulties for developing a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for the EP industry. This complicates measurement of the size of and employment in EP activities as well.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1. Purpose of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2. Principal Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3. Outline of the Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. CONTRIBUTION OF THE STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1. The EP “Industry” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2. Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3. Improved Modelling of the Economic Impacts of Environmental Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2. EP Activities in an I-O Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Specific Activities Included and Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.4. Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4. COMPOSITION OF EP ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5. SIZE OF THE EP INDUSTRY RELATIVE TO THE U.S. ECONOMY . . . . . . . . . 15 6. EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATED WITH EP ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6.1. Computation of Direct Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6.2. Computation of Indirect Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6.3. Total Employment in EP Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 APPENDIX B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1