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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Kenneth J. ArrowDepartment of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USABert BolinDepartment of Meteorology, University of Stockholm, 106 91 Stockholm, SwedenRobert CostanzaPartha DasguptaFaculty of Economics, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UKCarl FolkeBeijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, SwedenC. S. HollingDepartment of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USABengt‐Owe JanssonDepartment of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, SwedenSimon A. LevinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USAKarl-Göran MälerBeijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, SwedenCharles PerringsDepartment of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, University of York, York Y01 5DD, UKDavid PimentelDepartment of Entomology and Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA

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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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DOI: 10.1016/0921-8009(95)00059-3

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