Quality of life: an approach integrating opportunities, human needs, and subjective well-being

By Robert Costanza, B. Fisher, Saleem H. Ali, Caroline C. Beer, L. Bond, Roelof Boumans, N. Danigelis, J. Dickinson, Carolyn Elliott, J. Farley and 12 more. 2007

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Health, Social Psychology

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Relating ecoystem services to domains of human well-being: Foundation for a U.S. index (2013, background): “This is not surprising since basic human needs must be met efore holistic well-being can ultimately be achieved (Maslow, 954; Max-Neef, 1992; Sen, 1993; Diener and Diener, 1995; ostanza et al., 2007; Dodds, 1997).”
A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, background): “However, objective measures such as life expectancy, rates of disease, and GDP are also proxies for wellbeing that have been identified through the personal judgment of analysts, experts and decision makers; hence, the choice remains between subjective measures and proxies (Costanza et al., 2007).”
Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems and human well-being (2016, background): “We acknowledge that a plethora of ecosystem service conceptual frameworks (e.g., Costanza et al. 2007, Bateman et al. 2011, Fisher et al. 2013, Reyers et al. 2013, Díaz et al. 2015) have been developed to facilitate thinking about the complex reality of ecosystem services.”
There Is No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Re-Conceptualizing Tourism as a Tool for Sustainability (2014, background): “QoL refers to the idea that a good and satisfying life depends on meeting key basic needs [21,22].”
Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress (2009, background): “The social/institutional barriers may ultimately be more difficult to overcome”
The Role of Physically Active Leisure for Enhancing Quality of Life (2014, background): “Improving quality of life (QOL) has been a major lifestyle and policy goal for people, communities, and nations (Costanza et al., 2007).”
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, background): “(Diamond 2005; Costanza et al. 2007), and many of them were not what we would call “desirable,” there have been a few successful historical cases in which decline did not occur, including the following (Weiss and Bradley 2001; Diamond 2005): • Tikopia Islanders have maintained a sustainable food…”
The Tourism Development–Quality of Life Nexus in a Small Island Destination (2016, background): “On the other hand, factors such as job uncertainty and decreasing productivity, as suggested by Croes (2012) in the case of Costa Rica, may have dampened the QoL gains of citizens of Aruba.”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “This has led to the shift from money-metric measures of well-being to subjective well-being that take into account subjective aspects such as the perception of satisfaction, happiness, security and freedom (see Kingdon and Knight, 2006; Costanza et al., 2007).”
Towards sustainability of energy systems: A primer on how to apply the concept of energy services to identify necessary trends and policies (2008, background): “7 Costanza et al. (2007) suggest that a set of indicators evaluating quality of life should be oriented on basic human needs, which they define as subsistence, security, understanding, freedom, etc.”
The Relationship between Social Cohesion and Urban Green Space: An Avenue for Health Promotion (2019, background): “Others suggest that place attachment is linked with perceptions of fewer incivilities and local crime [96] in addition to increased subjective well-being [94,97] and other positive emotions [98].”