Balancing Sustainable Development

Steven Hayward examines the notion of 'sensible environmentalism', and how it may become a guide for development.

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April 29, 2003, 10:00 AM PDT

"The first step toward taking sustainable development seriously is to treat it not as a metaphor or political straddle but as a practical tool for analyzing environmental and resource-use problems and distinguishing good policy from bad. This can be done by applying the idea to several discrete environmental issues: renewable resources, nonrenewable resources, local ecosystems, and the global ecosystem."

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