Rates of environmental problem generation: Thoughts on a new research direction |
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Authors: | Robert I McDonald |
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Institution: | (1) Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, 01366-0068 |
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Abstract: | Environmental scientists are continually discovering new and emerging environmental problems. There have been many studies
of how a particular environmental problem has occurred, its costs to society, and its (potential) resolution. However, to
date there have been few studies of the rate at which new environmental problems are generated by human technological innovations.
In this note, I present a conceptual framework that will help quantify how many now-unknown problems we may expect to occur
in a given sector. Two brief case studies illustrate the difficulty of finding appropriate dataset for fitting the full model,
however. Policy implications of the conceptual framework are discussed, with different kinds of economic sectors requiring
different approaches. |
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Keywords: | Chemical abstracts Environmental Kuznet’ s curves Invasive species Precautionary principle Problem generation TCSA |
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