标题：Ensuring That Development Metrics Consider Environmental Sustainability - A Proposal to Combine Development Metrics With an Ecological Threshold Variable
期刊名称：International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research
电子版ISSN：1559-8020
出版年度：2008
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：44-68
出版社：International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research
摘要：Fifteen years after the global adoption of Sustainable Development as the crux of the development agenda, a very narrow range of metrics with little direct relation to sustainable development continues to dominate development policy at the international level. A concern is that these measures of development promote a vision of development that neglects environmental sustainability or worse invokes a vision of development that is unsustainable. This paper explores how combining development metrics with an ecological threshold variable provides a means to ensure that the pursuit of development objectives do not adversely impact environmental sustainability.
关键词：Ecological threshold; Ecological Footprint; sustainable development; sustainability;indicators; Human Development Index
