Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Set Environmental Goals Via Rates and Directions of Change
Set Environmental Goals Via Rates and Directions of Change
Pages 87-90
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Measuring progress requires a metric and a path to determine the direction in which progress is going.1 Earlier chapters have discussed the importance of monitoring -- especially in relation to ecological systems. Sustainability is an evolutionary concept, and there are inherent limitations in the rate of adaptation of human systems to technological and social change and in the speed of cumulative social learning.
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There is now considerable experience to demonstrate synergy between environmental improvement and product and process improvements that generate continuous gains in product value and continuous improvement in both labor and capital productivity in manufacturing or operations (in the case of services)
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Without intermediate milestones, the rate of progress can be difficult to judge, and tens of billions of dollars can be spent over several decades without knowing the extent to which any substantial result has been achieved. Recommendation Rather than stopping at the selected specific end points being discussed in the federal government and elsewhere, environmental goals should be formulated in terms of an adjustable strategy for continuous evolutionary improvement in environmental performance that includes intermediate milestones.
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