The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth

By S. Abdallah, Sam Thompson, Juliet Michaelson, N. Marks, Nicola Steuer. 2009

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The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, background): “Third, the Happy Planet Index (HPI) (Marks et al., 2006; Abdallah et al., 2009) is the ratio of average life satisfaction multiplied by life expectancy over the EF per capita.7 A related EWEB measure is Ng’s (2008) Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index, which is an attempt to revise…”
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy (2012, methodology): “This ratio is ameasure of the efficiencywith which natural resources are translated into human well-being, and is the approach taken by the Happy Planet Index (Abdallah et al., 2009).”
The bare necessities: How much household carbon do we really need? (2010, background): “…14 See Ruut Veenhoven’s ‘World Happiness Database’ available on the web at: www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness. the good life (Abdallah et al. 2009; Jackson 2006; Jackson and Michaelis 2003; Marks et al. 2006; Perri and Christie 1998).”