Natural resources, sustaining capacity and technologic development

Autor:	János I. Tóth
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	Scarcity Philosophy Health (social science) Extensive growth Natural resource economics Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Production (economics) Sociology Socioeconomics Natural resource Presupposition media_common
Zdroj:	Global Bioethics. 12:99-105
ISSN:	1591-7398 1128-7462
DOI:	10.1080/11287462.1999.10800750
Popis:	Modem economics relied on the false presupposition that natural resources are free goods. It gave rise to exaggerated expectations on the side of economists concerning the possibilities of economic growth. I try to interpret the terms of natural resources, sustaining capacity, production from a human-ecological platform. The quantity of natural resources may vary within a large spectrum between absolute abundance and total exhaustion. The support capacity can be raised in different ways. Extensive growth is wrong while technological development is a good way. So, certain technological-market processes aiming at extensive growth must be suppressed, processes that could increase effectivity and technical developments, which would draw new resources into production, should be supported.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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