"Sustainable development is the Holy Grail of governments and
leaders but has remained elusive and undefined. "Wellbeing of
Nations" provides the diagnostics to turn sustainability into
reality. This is the ultimate travel guide to a sustainable
future." --Jose Maria Figueres, former President of Costa Rica,
World Economic Forum "At long last, a real metric for measuring
sustainability and wellbeing. It provides a way to chart a better
future. The cornerstone of any working library on environment,
development, and quality of life. A volume without peer." --Thomas
E. Lovejoy, Chief Biodiversity Advisor, The World Ban.The use of
indicators to gauge human progress is common and well understood;
Gross Domestic Product and the Index of Leading Economic Indicators
are two well-known examples. Yet most of the widely cited
indicators focus exclusively on economic activity, and even the
most progressive of indicators fail to account for key issues of
sustainability. "The Wellbeing of Nations" addresses that
shortcoming by combining indicators of human well-being with those
of environmental stability to generate a more comprehensive picture
of the state of our world.The author combines 39 indicators of
health, population, wealth, education, communication, freedom,
peace, crime, and equity into a Human Wellbeing Index, and 39
indicators of land health, protected areas, water quality, water
supply, global atmosphere, air quality, species diversity, energy
use, and resource pressures into an Ecosystem Wellbeing Index. The
two indexes are then combined into a Wellbeing/Stress Index that
measures how much human wellbeing each country obtains for the
amount of stress it places on the environment.Seventy color-coded
geopolitical maps vividly portray the performance of each of the
180 nations for all indexes, and the main indicators that go into
them. In addition, all data are given in 160 pages of tables, and
the highly accessible methodology is described in appendices so
that readers can undertake their own assessments.Produced in
collaboration with the leading international organizations involved
with sustainable development, "The Wellbeing of Nations" is a
one-of-a-kind reference for development and environmental policy
professionals, as well as for students and scholars in
environmental studies, international studies, and international
development.
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