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Environmental Quality as a Planning Objective: Trends since 1970
Following World War II, a national consensus emerged in the United States on the objectives of full employment and economic growth--objectives which, along with national security, were to dominate national policy for the next twenty years. By the early 1960s, great progress had been made in achieving these goals. Overall, unemployment rates were low, real per-capita income had shown steady increases, prices were stable, and the Cold War crisis had abated. The very success in achieving economic growth and stability objectives led the Nation to turn attention to other pressing domestic issues. Two of these assumed great importance--the "war on poverty" and environmental quality; along with Vietnam, these issues dominated United States policy in the Johnson and first Nixon administrations. Both the war on poverty and Vietnam issues reached their peak in the late 1960s and were already on the decline in importance when the issue of environmental quality rose to national importance in 1970
Environment, Natural Sytems, and Development An Economic Valuation Guide
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