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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

K. Arrow,B. Bolin,R. Costanza,P. Dasgupta,C. Folke,C. S. Holling,B. Jansson,S. Levin,K. Mäler,Charles Perrings,D. Pimentel

Published 1995 in Environment and Development Economics

ABSTRACT

Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberalization of intemational trade) are, in some sense, good for the environment. This notion has meant that economy-wide policy reforms designed to promote growth and liberalization have been encouraged with little regard to their environmental consequences, presumably on the assumption that these consequences would either take care of themselves or could be dealt with separately. In this article we discuss the relation between economic growth and environmental quality, and the link between economic activity and the carrying capacity and resilience of the environment (1).

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