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Social welfare

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-025919

Human well-being, measured at some aggregate level (U.S. EPA 2006). In the typical economic context, the sum of individual benefit measures within a utilitarian benefit-cost framework, where individual welfare is often measured by a person's willingness to pay.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-025919
FieldEnvironment
SubjectEcosystems
ReferencesCore Ecosystem Services Research Program Standard Lexicon
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025919",
  "term": "Social welfare",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Human well-being, measured at some aggregate level (U.S. EPA 2006). In the typical economic context, the sum of individual benefit measures within a utilitarian benefit-cost framework, where individual welfare is often measured by a person's willingness to pay.",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Core Ecosystem Services Research Program Standard Lexicon"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/social-welfare/"
}

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