Environmental decision-making, like economic decision-making, often involves trade-offs. Decision-makers need techniques with which to compare the costs and benefits involved. For some environmental problems, such as global warming, there are insuperable difficulties to making operational what...

Environmental decision-making, like economic decision-making, often involves trade-offs. Decision-makers need techniques with which to compare the costs and benefits involved. For some environmental problems, such as global warming, there are insuperable difficulties to making operational what...

The concept of sustainable development needs to be based on a clear definition of sustainability and how it is to be measured. This paper defines environmental sustainability as the maintenance of important environmental functions, and identifies seven sustainability principles that relate this...

The concept of sustainable development needs to be based on a clear definition of sustainability and how it is to be measured. This paper defines environmental sustainability as the maintenance of important environmental functions, and identifies seven sustainability principles that relate this...