New Zealand
Annotated links related to the theme of Science and Society in New Zealand. Please tell us if you would like any particular information added here.
The Bioethics Council in New Zealand is a Ministerial Advisory Committee that sets its own priorities and reports to the Government through the Minister for the Environment. Offers links to a wide range of organisations involved with bioethics in New Zealand and eslewhere. From March to May 2005, an online forum has been established for discussion of animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation).
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a new index of economic performance being developed by a team of researchers at Massey University and Landcare Research (Simon Collins, New Zealoand Herald 8th oct. 2003). As well as the above link (click on headline) see GPI Online, an Australian base for GPI development.
The GPI takes into account environmental and social costs of economic activities, and may thus provide a far more rational basis for economic and political opinion making and decision making than the usual measure used to judge economic health, namely the GDP or Gross Domestic Product.