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SOCIO‐ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING APPLIED TO WATER RESOURCE PLANNING 1
Author(s) -
Criss Robert R.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1971.tb04973.x
Subject(s) - accounting , resource (disambiguation) , business , water resources , process (computing) , human resource accounting , resource management (computing) , management accounting , environmental resource management , environmental economics , economics , computer science , ecology , computer network , biology , operating system
The growing social consciousness and concern with human well‐being has resulted in numerous water resource use and control programs, the results of which must be measured not in the customary monetary terms, but rather in terms of social and human welfare. Interdisciplinary research offers the greatest promise of yielding fruitful results in establishing planning methodology that would result in a maximum utilization of funds available for water resource programs. Working with the various social science disciplines, accountants have begun research in social measurement thus opening the door to a new field of accountancy known as socio‐economic accounting. The development of social accounting systems will improve water resource management by projecting heretofore unmeasureable social values into the management decision making process.