The Wellbeing of Nations: A Country-by-Country Index of Quality of Life and the Environment

By R. Prescott-Allen. 2001

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Measuring the Immeasurable: A Survey of Sustainability Indices (2007, unknown): “The aggregation of these dimensions is conducted by a weighted10 arithmetic mean of further sub-indices or variables which are normalized again by a proximity-to-target approach using targets of related indicators (Prescott-Allen, 2001, pp. 298 et sqq.).”
METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING COMPOSITE INDICES: ONE FOR ALL OR ALL FOR ONE? (2013, background): “In fact, the GDP is based on very solid theoretical bases, while many alternative indices guilty of clarity from the stage of definition of the phenomenon; in many circumstances (for example, the Human Wellbeing Index or HWI; Prescott-Allen, 2001), not having a shared theory behind , taking into acc”
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview (2005, methodology): “For useful elaborations of these kinds of typologies, see Prescott-Allen (2001), who provides a countryby-country index of data on well-being and the quality of the environment, and Bass, Hughes, and Hawthorne (2001, p. 54), who propose a nine cell model that includes a ‘‘no change’’ option on each…”
The Ecological Footprint Intensity of National Economies (2004, methodology): “Ozone-depleting substance data are from Prescott-Allen (2001) and from various years in the late 1990s.”
An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (2006, background): “…include sustainability polygons (Herweg et al., 1998), sustainability AMEOBAs (Ten Brink et al., 1991), sustainability webs (Bockstaller et al., 1997), kite diagrams (Garcia, 1997), sustainable livelihood asset pentagons (Scoones, 1998) and the sustainability barometer (Prescott-Allen, 2001).”
Categorising tools for sustainability assessment (2007, unknown): “The Wellbeing Index consists of two indices, the HumanWellbeing Index (HWI) and Ecosystem Wellbeing Index (EWI), which are aggregated frommore than 60 different indicators.”
The argument against a reductionist approach for measuring sustainable development performance and the need for methodological pluralism (2009, background): “Currently there seems to be an active interest in sustainability indicators judging from the large number of sustainability indicator lists published by academics, local authorities, national and international organisations (Esty, Levy, Srebotnjak, & de Sherbinin, 2005; Prescott-Allen, 2001; UN, 200”
Proposal of a Sustainable Circular Index for Manufacturing Companies (2017, unknown): “Several initiatives have been proposed to measure sustainability such as: (i) the Indicators of Sustainable Development of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which was developed by the United Nations in 1995 with the main objective of making indicators of sustainable development access”
Energy consumption, human well-being and economic development in central and eastern European nations: A cautionary tale of sustainability (2014, background): “It is generally assumed that development enhances human well-being (Brady et al., 2007; Gilpin, 2001), while ecosystems provide valuable services to humanity (Liu et al., 2007; Ringold et al., 2012), which themselves enhance quality of life in various ways (Prescott-Allen, 2001; Reid et al., 2005).”