The role of human, social, built, and natural capital in explaining life satisfaction at the country level: Toward a National Well-Being Index (NWI)

By Amanda W. Vemuri, Robert Costanza. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Natural capital, subjective well-being, and the new welfare economics of sustainability: Some evidence from cross-country regressions (2009, background): “ Vemuri and Costanza (2006) focus on how various types of capital (i.e.”
The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What is to be Sustained” with “What is to be Developed” (2011, background): “…economics perspective that suggests that the notion of the life support and preserving ecosystem services is reflected in the wellbeing index (Vemuri & Costanza, 2006)—“a condition in which the ecosystem maintains its diversity and quality—and thus its capacity to support people and the rest…”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “…Veenhoven (2003), Fahey and Smyth (2004), Powdthavee (2005), Bray and Gunnell (2006), the tongue-in-cheek Christensen, Herskind , and Vaupel (2006), Vemuri and Constanza (2006), Blanchflower (2001, 2009, in press), Appleton and Song (2008), Deaton (2008), Diener, Lucas, and Schimmack (2008),…”
Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime (2015, background): “2006) and life satisfaction (e.g., Kaplan 1995, Vemuri and Costanza 2006), among many other indicators of health and well-being.”
From Materialist to Post-Materialist Happiness? National Affluence and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Cross-National Perspective (2010, background): “considerable efforts have been made to find out what distinguishes the happiest from the unhappiest places (Bjornskov 2003; Diener et al. 1995; Veenhoven 1999; Vemuri and Constanza 2006).”
Outdoor Recreation and Nature Tourism:A European Perspective (2007, background): “There has been recent work at trying to develop indices of life satisfaction that take into account the role of human, social, built and natural capital at a country level (Vemuri and Costanza, 2006).”
The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, background): “A number of studies have explored the relationship between natural capital or environmental quality and human well-being (Engelbrecht, 2009; Vemuri and Costanza, 2006); however, these studies have not focused on the role of environmental consumption per se.”
Relating ecoystem services to domains of human well-being: Foundation for a U.S. index (2013, background): “Fordham Index of Social Health (Vemuri and Costanza, 2006) Culture (1)”
Happiness is greater in natural environments (2013, background): “Observational studies have related averaged wellbeing measures to aggregate environmental characteristics between geographical regions (e.g. Mitchell & Popham, 2007, 2008, Vemuri & Costanza, 2006, Engelbrecht, 2009).”
Tourism and Quality of Life: Towards a More Critical Approach (2009, background): “Vermuri and Costanza (2006) provide such an approach when they argue that to meet the needs identifi ed in the various conceptual approaches to QoL, individuals need access to fi ve different types of capital.”
Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress (2013, background): “…or welfare ultimately depends on the underlying stocks of natural, human, built, and social capital, and because the GPI makes additions and deductions to GDP to reflect net contributions to these stocks it is a far superior measure of economic welfare than GDP (Vemuri and Costanza, 2006).”