1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Pressure Indices and Relative Valuation of Environmental Damages
Author : Jochen Jesinghaus
Published in: Social Costs and Sustainability
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The sociopolitical discussion in democratic industrialized countries focuses mainly on three important “clusters” or “basic goals”: material wealth & economic growth (higher living standard & more fun, measured as GNP)social equity & employment (justice & a job for everybody, expressed as income distribution measures and/or unemployment rate)the fight for a better environment (give nature a chance, currently not measured in a consistent way)