Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress

By Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza, Carol Franco, Philip A. Lawn, J. Talberth, Tim Jackson, Camille Aylmer. 2013

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Economic Growth Quality, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Welfare in China - Provincial Assessment Based on Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) (2019, background): “As the data needed in estimating GPI have become more available in the recent years, the index has acquired a broader recognition as a relatively feasible approximation of economic welfare (Kubiszewski et al., 2013).”
Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? (2017, background): “Table 5 lists some of the potential uses of ecosystem services valuation, ranging from simply raising awareness to detailed analysis of various policy choices and scenarios (Kubiszewski et al., 2013a).”
A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, background): “A list of themajor problems of GDP as a proxy to sustainable societal development includes: It ignores several components that do not involve monetary transactions (Kubiszewski et al., 2013), excluding almost all nonmonetary production, such as childcare or volunteerism, and the work done at home.”
Social, Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research (2015, background): “To achieve sustainability-as-flourishing, scholars from a variety of disciplines advocate transformational change in our economic, social and political systems (Capra, 2002; Costanza et al., 2013; Ehrenfeld & Hoffman, 2013; Eisler, 2008; G. B. Grant, 2012; Harding, 2006; Harman, 1998; Jackson, 2011;”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “Service indicators can complement GDP in such analyses, as services highlight the relevance of specific combinations of material stocks and resource flows for contributions to societal wellbeing.”
The contradiction of the sustainable development goals: Growth versus ecology on a finite planet (2019, background): “Kubiszewski et al. (2013) find that in most countries GPI grows along with GDP until a particular threshold, after which GDP continues to grow, whereas GPI flattens and in some cases declines.”
Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery as a Proxy Measure of Human Well-Being (2013, background): “GDP cannot provide any guarantee about the quality of the goods and services produced in a country, or whether it adds any value to social progress or human happiness [22].”
Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia (2015, background): “The perspectives on poverty inescapably surpass the notion of welfare utility and encompass a broader range of capabilities (Kahneman et al., 1997; Sen, 1999; Wegner and Pascual, 2011), including the capabilities of pursuing individual happiness (Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Kubiszewski et al., 2013).”
Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016, background): “Results show that when growing inequality and environmental costs are incorporated, GPI has not been growing at all inmany countries over the last several decades (Kubiszewski et al., 2013).”
Research On Degrowth (2018, neutral): “Kubiszewski et al. (56) ﬁnd that the Genuine Progress Indicator, an indicator that global growth.”
Changes in the global value of ecosystem services (2014, positive): “GDP picks up only a fraction of this total contribution (Costanza et al., 2014; Kubiszewski et al., 2013b).”
Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models (2018, background): “Moreover, GDP is not always the most appropriate indicator for assessing economic welfare, population well‐being, and sustainability (Kubiszewski et al., 2013).”
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “connect deeply into policies and practices (136).”