Sustainable well-being

This page is an automatic translation to Chinese of Sustainable well-being.This translation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any guarantee of accuracy.

Sustainable well-being is sustainable development with maximum benefit in quality of life for minimum negative impact on the environment.

Dr. Richard Davidson describes sustainable well-being as the ratio of psychological well-being to environmental footprint. He has studied the systematic training of the mind through meditation, finding that it changes the brain in beneficial ways, improving well-being.

Other scientists also use the term:

Sustainable well-being, in my lexicon, entails pursuing sustainable development to achieve well-being where it is now most conspicuously absent, as well as converting to a sustainable basis the maintenance and expansion of well-being where it already exists but is being provided by unsustainable means.

— John P. Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy and 2006-7 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being

Other meanings

Slightly different meanings are sometimes used.

经济

澳大利亚财政部长对这个词给出了经济观点：

可持续的福祉要求至少为子孙后代维持当前的福祉水平。在这方面，我们可以认为可持续性要求，相对于他们的人口，每一代人都留下一笔资本——福祉的生产基础——至少与其继承的资本一样大。

— Martin Parkinson 博士，澳大利亚财政部^{W部长，c。}2011 年 8 月

在同一次演讲中，他补充说：

...drawing down any one part of the capital base may be reasonable as long as the economy's aggregate productive base is not eroded. For example, reducing our natural resource base and using the proceeds to build human capital or infrastructure may offer prospects of higher future well-being. A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for this to be the case is that those resources are priced appropriately and that the returns are invested sensibly.

— Dr Martin Parkinson

Journalist Ross Gittins^W gave measured praise for Parkinson's speech, but commented:

I doubt how much trading off is possible when it comes to the environment. Ensuring our kids are richer than we are, while destroying the natural environment because we refuse to accept the physical limits to economic growth, doesn't sound sustainable to me.

— Ross Gittins, ^[1]

Long term well-being

The term can also be used for well-being (for example in a mental health context) which is long lasting.

Notes and references

See also

• Quality of life
• More joy per person
• Indicator frameworks
• Happy Planet Index^W (HPI)
• 真正的进度指示器^W (GPI)
• 可持续福祉：探索可持续生活和持久幸福

Interwiki 链接

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