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Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2008, Pages 33-37
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Sustainable Rangeland Management, Economic Growth, and a Cautious Role for the SRM

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Economic Growth and Rangelands

Economic growth is an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services. The simplest way for an economy to grow is for its population to grow. All else being equal—seldom the case but useful for illustration—a doubling of the population results in a doubling of the economy's size. The other basic mechanism for economic growth is when per capita production and consumption grow. This may occur when more hours are spent working; but more important, for the long-term, is new

Technological Progress

Even the most optimistic observers do not deny that, all else equal, increasing production and consumption of goods and services conflicts with environmental protection and ecological sustainability. However, “all else equal” (“ceteris paribus” in economics jargon) is a simplistic criterion, and some believe that technological progress, which makes newer production unequal to older, has reconciled or may reconcile the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection.

In economic

Economic Growth and the Society for Range Management

The SRM is “the professional scientific society and conservation organization whose members are concerned with studying, conserving, managing, and sustaining the varied resources of the rangelands which comprise nearly half the land in the world,” and its mission is “to promote the professional development and continuing education of members and the public and the stewardship of rangeland resources” (http://www.rangelands.org/about_srm.shtml). SRM has approximately 4,000 members from 28

Positions on Economic Growth

Positions on economic growth are already adopted by several professional societies with a focus on natural resources, including The Wildlife Society, the American Society of Mammalogists, the Society for Conservation Biology's North America Section, and smaller organizations such as the British Columbia Field Ornithologists. There is also support from a segment of the economics profession as exemplified by the position taken by the US Society for Ecological Economics. However, more unity is

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