Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs. The National Academies Press and the Transportation Research Board have partnered with Copyright Clearance Center to offer a variety of options for reusing our content.
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Read Online. View Cover. Over time, though, EPA will integrate sustainability-related questions with the existing ROE themes and add new indicators to address aspects of sustainability relevant to EPA's mission. In this version of the ROE, most of the indicators address environmental conditions and some address social human health and exposure conditions. Although none of the current indicators directly addresses economic conditions, several indicators have been added to address natural resource consumption; these have an economic component see Energy Use , Freshwater Withdrawals , Municipal Solid Waste , and RCRA Hazardous Waste.
The ROE includes a systems-based sustainability framework that depicts some of the relationships among the three dimensions of sustainability. The framework is useful to illustrate how ROE indicators can be integrated into sustainability and to conceptualize important causal connections between quantitative ROE indicators e.
These are just first steps toward providing new information that supports sustainability-based environmental protection. Since the concept of sustainability, or sustainable development, is based on the fundamental interdependence between human and natural systems, EPA has adapted for the ROE a systems approach that illustrates the linkages among the three dimensions environment, society, economy of sustainability. March Friedman, L. A History of American Law, 3rd Ed. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U. Environmental Protection Agency EPA has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency.
To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council NRC to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making.
This framework, Sustainability and the U. EPA , provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.
Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar.
Sustainability offers a useful framework for addressing such challenges. Because of the growing strategic importance of sustainability , 2 EPA expanded the scope of the ROE to include this thematic area with an initial set of national-level indicators that help address the following fundamental question:. Contact Us to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem.
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