Environmentally Efficient Weil-Being: Rethinking Sustainability as the Relationship between Human Well-being and Environmental Impacts

• Published in: Human ecology review Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 114 - 123
• Main Authors: Dietz, T, Rosa, E A, York, R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2009

The question of how to measure sustainability remains vexing. We approach the problem by noting that most theories of environmental impact assume that exploitation of the environment provides benefits to human well-being. However, this assumption has not been subject to much empirical discipline. We...