ABSTRACT
Throughout the 1970s the debate over environmental protection has pitted the "preservationist" against the "economic developer." The dialogue has been conducted in terms which seem to have been mutually agreed upon by both factions. Those terms conveniently distinguish between "economic" values and "environmental" or "social" values. The pursuit of economic values brings with it changes in the physical and social environment which threaten the "environmental" or "social" values. There is, we are told in the economist's jargon, a trade-off between the two. Further improvement in economic well being often can be purchased only at the expense of a deterioration in the "quality of life."
