1 Endowments

Definition: The economic, environmental and social resources, assets and conditions that we inherit from previous generations and pass along to future generations.

Definition Source: A Proposed Framework for Selecting a Set of Sustainable Development Indicators for U.S.

Endowments Categories:

1.1 Economic Endowments: Management and development of the resources, as in income, materials, and labor, of a country, community, or business. This covers all infrastructure related to the production, distribution, and sale of goods and services.

------1.1.1 Human Capital

------1.1.2 Man Made Capital

1.2 Environmental Endowments: That portion of the Earth system that can exist without the presence of man.

------1.2.1 Ecological Capacity

------1.2.3 Ecosystems, Estuarine

------1.2.2 Ecosystems, Land

------1.2.4 Ecosystems, Marine

------1.2.5 Global Subsystems

------1.2.6 Non-Renewable Resources

1.3 Social Capital: The infrastructure that governs the relationships between individuals in a society. This does not includes physical and material assets, which fall under Man-made Capital.

------1.3.1 Culture

------1.3.5 Informal Relationships

------1.3.2 Social Capacities

------1.3.3 Social Information

------1.3.4 Social Institutions