These new, more comprehensive measures are designed to guide US policy in an era of environmental destruction and economic downturn.
It also suggests the EU could, as a more comprehensive measure, ban the import of settlement goods.
"For that we plainly need more comprehensive measures and, most especially, a strong and continuing military response".
In the House, Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Louise M. Slaughter of New York, also Democrats, have introduced a more comprehensive measure.
Puma, Mars, Rabobank and Standard Chartered would be among those lobbying for national governments to introduce alternatives to GDP – more comprehensive measures of national progress, wellbeing and natural capital.
Such strategies should be informed by serious efforts to go beyond conventional measures of family income to develop more comprehensive measures of economic well-being.
If the provocations of excessive policing are avoided and one or two dramatic concessions of great symbolic importance made, a cooling-off period may be secured in which more comprehensive measures to relieve tensions in the situation can be undertaken.
A more comprehensive measure of those not in work is "non-employment", the sum of the unemployed and inactive as a share of the working-age population 15-644 year-olds).
Clark said the HDI could be a "starting point for a more comprehensive measure of sustainable development", and emphasised the need for more research and consultations with governments, civil society and academic experts in the field, in collaboration with other UN agencies and multilateral institutions.
This more comprehensive measure is useful in later generalizing results, particularly for city size stratifications.
