While environmental scientists tend to use physical units in order to measure and describe risks and impacts, the policy-making process is faced with trade-offs, that are often economic in nature.
How does the inclusion or exclusion of various stakeholder groups impact the policy process?
Some Conservatives have also voiced opposition to the policy, amid studies showing the huge poverty impact the policy will have.
What central bankers need is a policy tool that can target financial overheating directly while minimising the impact the policy has on real, productive investment.
The crunch has now come with the impact the policy of austerity has had on business investment and the export sector, and hence on the balance of payments.
The rapporteur was struck by the impact the policy has on people with disabilities whose homes had been converted to suit their needs.
Here are four graphs that show the impact the policy, which was introduced in 1980, has had on China's population.
I asked three financial services veterans for their take on how much of an impact the policy changes could have for women working in banking and finance.
However, it's hard to ignore the impact the policy is having on the people it's meant to be helping.
The impact the policy has on the whole of society, Fong reveals, includes a rapidly aging population and a huge gender imbalance.
