Michigan State University Extension
Environmental Justice Database - 10169531
03/01/96
"Equity and the Environment, Social Justice Today as a Prerequisite for Sustainability for the Future."
Boyce, J. K. 1995
ALTERNATIVES 21 (1): 12-17.
This author argues that intergenerational environmental
equity is possibly only with a redefinition of the
current relationship between growth and efficiency, on
the one hand, and equity and democracy on the other. He
examines economic efficiency and environmental costs; the
power-weighted social decision rule; setting monetary
values; and the environmental time preference. Boyce uses
basic economic concepts to argue that there is a close
connection between democratic political institutions and
a society's ability to achieve sustainability.
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