ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the potential trade-offs among effects, both within plans and across plans, for four sets of measures: short-term vs. long-term effects; direct vs. indirect effects; geographical distribution; and groups affected. Different plans can have substantially different potentials for both direct and indirect effects. The social well-being Task Group should evaluate the plans according to their direct and indirect beneficial and adverse social effects. The short-term social effects of the environmental quality plan would be minimal, since no roads would have to be blocked, air pollution would not spread to the community. The chapter focuses on the comparative social merit of each of the plans, on balance, with respect to the five concerns of beneficial and adverse social effects on the individual, community, area, nation, and in the aggregate.
