Environmental Sustainability: Universal and Non-Negotiable

作者: Robert Goodland , Herman Daly

DOI: 10.2307/2269583

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摘要: After deploring the mystification of term sustainability and tendencies to conflate it with society's desiderata, we desegregate three types sustainability: social, economic, environmental. clarifying these linked overlapping concepts, construing them sustainable development, distinguish quantitative throughput growth from qualitative mention intergenerational equity scarcity natural capital that together lead definition environmental by output/input rule, i.e., keep wastes within assimilative capacities; harvest regenerative capacities renewable resources; deplete non-renewables at rate which substitutes are developed. distinguishing development growth, paper describes concept uses present four alternative definitions sustainability. Next, presents criteria for analyzing Ehrlich-Holdren framework in Population," Pffluence, Technology examined separately. The then nuances I = PAT identity starts disaggregate components into more dynamic formulations. final section how one large agency, World Bank, is endeavoring incorporate new principles its operations.

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