The general field also includes environmental impact assessment and environmental accounting, and to tie them together, systems ecology, cost estimation models and costbenefit analysis.
Understanding the impact and eventually resolving these methodological issues will become important items on the environmental accounting research agenda.
Depletion isn't the whole of environmental accounting however with pollution being but one factor of business that is almost never accounted for specifically.
Environmental accounting is a field that identifies resource use, measures and communicates costs of a companys or national economic impact on the environment.
Part of the problem is that the current "energy" markets are designed to allow baseload fossil fuel generation to trundle through at relatively low cost -- but no environmental accounting.
