The phrase
"human wellbeing" means the state of feeling healthy, happy, and satisfied with one's life. It refers to the overall quality of life and encompasses physical, mental, and social aspects.
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Many use it in that sense — an economy in which there is an improved sense
of human wellbeing and social equity, with reduced environmental and ecological risks.
It suggests that global sustainability today is a prerequisite
for human wellbeing at the local to regional scales.
A society could provide all these contributions to
human wellbeing at very little cost to the natural environment.
If further changes reduce demand still further, and hours are cut still more, surely that is not to be regarded as a loss from the point of view of
true human wellbeing!
Our mission is to advance gender equality, social justice, and
human wellbeing through high quality research, theory, and action programs.
They are differentiated according to where they occur in the process between emitting GHGs and the loss
of human wellbeing.
Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve
human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.
It is not mentioned in any of the 169 targets, yet many people think it is a decisive factor for global environmental change and
future human wellbeing,» says IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz, a study coauthor.
6 November, 2017 — The World Meteorological Organisation says 2017 is among the three warmest years recorded,
with human wellbeing facing mounting risks.
The Human Rights Council report on the right to science defines «scientific progress» as attributing «positive impact» of science and innovation
on human wellbeing.
The Chadian population consistently feature among the planet's lowliest on most indicator's of
human wellbeing such as literacy, infant mortality or health.
Their evolutionary model points out that
human wellbeing Lions and habits will have to be radically adjusted in order to avoid even worse consequences.
Researchers monitored a range of biological and cultural factors, showing how they
affected human wellbeing and the life - supporting properties of the biosphere.
Based upon a culturally shifted view of human beings as one of many creatures, the stabilization of unbridled human production capabilities would be seen as a path to a future marked
by human wellbeing, environmental health and sustainability.
Evidently, concerns like long -
term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.
Her 2005 presentation has been ignored and yet it is particularly timely in 2008, especially in the light of so many of the world's major polluters avoiding their duties and responsibilties to
protect human wellbeing and to preserve the integrity of Earth and its ecosystems.
The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that
influence human wellbeing.
India Environment Portal: Very different global rules are needed for
human wellbeing Averting climate change does not need emission reduction pledges, timetables and a common legal framework.
I would point out that this is a place where we discuss, amongst other things social policy which is about the ways in which humans can shape organisational relationships to
pursue human wellbeing.
They argue in the journal Science that a better understanding of the way nature — in the form of forests, wetlands, savannahs and all the creatures that depend on the natural world —
underwrites human wellbeing should inform political and economic decisions.
A scientific assessment released by UN Environment and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in 2011 found that measures targeting short - lived climate pollutants could achieve «win - win» results for the climate, air quality, and
human wellbeing over a relatively short timeframe.
«Transgressing a boundary increases the risk that human activities could inadvertently drive the Earth System into a much less hospitable state, damaging efforts to reduce poverty and leading to deterioration of
human wellbeing in many parts of the world, including wealthy countries», said Professor Steffen.
Where are intellectually honest and morally courageous professionals with appropriate expertise in the biology, economics, ecology, politics and demography who are willing to shed the light provided by the best available science on the relentless overproduction, outrageous overconsumption and unbridled overpopulation activities of the human species: the «mother» of all global threats to
future human wellbeing?
Among those who are concerned
with human wellbeing it shows up between those who believe each individual should be given an equal opportunity and those who see these individuals as parts of systems that prevent genuine equality of opportunity from being possible.
Our hard - won scientific knowledge should be used to
promote human wellbeing, protect the vulnerable and the poor, preserve Earth's fragile ecosystems, and keep faith with future generations.
The talk is titled Climate Action and
Human Wellbeing at a Crossroads: Historical Transformation or Backlash?
Scholars at WCW advance gender equality, social justice, and
human wellbeing through high - quality research, theory, and action programs.
Future work exploring this possibility will likely produce new insights into mechanisms essential
for human wellbeing and deregulated in disease.
Perhaps African, Latin American, and Native American cultures have values that are radically different from European and Asian ones, values that lead to different measures
of human wellbeing and success, and perhaps the effort to replace those values with others that will lead to success in Anglo culture is a mistake.
We need better tools for measuring development and
human wellbeing.
But surely the real goal should not be growth as such but
human wellbeing.
Feeling secure in the esteem of one's fellows, having a respected role to play in one's community, loving and being loved — these are the major contributors to
human wellbeing.
Otherwise we abandon all possibility of ethical influence on those decisions that will be most determinative of
human wellbeing.