PRODUCTO INTERNO BRUTO ECOLÓGICO REFERIDO AL AIRE, UNA HERRAMIENTA PARA MEDIR LA SOSTENIBILIDAD AMBIENTAL DE LA ZMVM (2003-2008)

Abstract

This thesis is a study on the relationship of economy and environment, which has been addressed by various strands of thought, those that make a strong criticism of the dominant theory and growth, expressing the importance of taking the limits of nature and which state that the problem is not precisely those physical limits, but in the way how they are used and at what pace, but all show that in order to link the economy with the environment, it is welfare. It also discusses the concept of sustainable development, which comes from the visible pollution problems and resource shortages have occurred in different parts of the world in the seventies. The concept links the social, environmental and economic to provide a sustainable world for both the present and future generations. It also reviews various tools that come to evaluate progress on sustainable development which achieves a nation, in each of the parties that comprise it. As the gross domestic product, the most widely used indicator in the economy, and from the criticism made of the use of it as a welfare measure, this research suggests that the measurement tool that better economic ties with the environment is the calculation of Green GDP, which takes into account the costs of exhaustion and environmental degradation caused by the economic process (presented as a negative growth rate that influences the traditional GDP), this proposal materializes in the calculation of gross domestic product organic air referred to the metropolitan area of the valley of Mexico, for the years 2003-2008.