Other Countries To Adopt ISEW
Besides the USA there have been at least seven other countries or regions which have attempted to implement the ISEW, namely the UK (Jackson & Marks 1994), Germany (Diefenbacher 1994), The Netherlands (Rosenberg & Oegema 1995), Austria (Stockhammer et al. 1995), British Columbia (Gustavson & Lonergan 1994), Sweden (Jackson & Stymne 1996), Chile (Castaneda 1999) and Finland (Hoffrén 2001).
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