Emilio Padilla (2002), 'Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability', Ecological Economics, 41, pp. 69–83.

Conventional evaluation and management methods have been widely criticized because of their implied discrimination against the interests of future generations. This has been particularly stressed in the recent literature of climate change (Azar. 1998; Chapman and Khanna, 2000). For a proper consideration of future generations in economic analysis, it would seem to be necessary to overcome several limitations of conventional analysis.