Wilson, Pelot., Tyedmers 2008. Ensuring that Development Metrics Consider Environmantal Sustainabilitys - A Proposal to o Combine Development Metrics with na Ecological Threshold Variable. International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research Vol. 3, No. 1, 44-68.
Abstract:
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.