Environmental planning
"A Desirable Environmental Model" by Richard H. Wills. Journal of Environmental Systems, Vol. 5(3), 1975
A long-term ecological model is presented for man's use of the environment. A definition of Desirable Environmental Use is formulated in terms of Actual Environmental Use and two limits on Actual Environmental Use. One limit, the Impact Share, is the amount of negative impact allowed on each species in the environment. The other limit, the Resource Share, is the amount of each non-living resource that may be acquired. Desirable Environmental Use is related directly to maximum desirable human population size and maximum desirable individual consumption.
This model, or a comparable model, needs to be adopted if we want to minimize climate change and maintain biological diversity.
The article is available at
https://clockss.org/triggered-content/journal-of-environmental-systems/
and also at
DOI: 10.2190/Q7R5-3CBW-J9LE-MGPD
Note on Environmental Planning
Often people have tried to solve problems by doing what is easy, convenient, customary, popular, and/or involves a minimum of change. When a problem has not been solved, it does little good to continue doing what others have done before. Instead, one has to ask what would actually solve the problem. The answer is likely to be very different from what is customarily done. First one has to ask what would actually solve the problem. Then one has to ask what we have to do to implement this solution. When one sticks to solutions that are easy, convenient, customary, popular, and/or involve little change, one is very unlikely to solve the problem.