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Understanding and measuring quality of life in Ireland : sustainability, happiness and well-being
Date Issued
2006
Date Available
2009-02-17T13:15:10Z
Abstract
In the last decade, the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy grew at a record rate for a developed country.Nevertheless, there has been much concern regarding the implications of the pace of economic growth for localised environmental quality and life satisfaction generally. It has long been recognised by economists, psychologists and others that traditional macro-measures of national income such as GDP and GNP are inadequate measures of the performance of an economy and wider society – such measures are unable to give value to environmental and social capital and are unable to capture the performance of a country in sustainability terms. The briefing note outlines the various approaches to measuring quality of life and sustainability for Ireland specifically focusing on a modified genuine savings
approach and the use of life satisfaction scores to measure well-being and individual happiness with life. The paper presents results for Ireland. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of this research for developing an evidence-base for public policy and sets out the need for investment in such research.
Type of Material
Conference Publication
Publisher
COMHAR
Copyright (Published Version)
2006 COMHAR
Subject – LCSH
Quality of life--Ireland
Ireland--Economic conditions--21st century
Ireland--Social conditions--21st century
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Part of
Towards sustainability in the National Development Plan 2007 – 2013 : proceedings from the Comhar national conference
Conference Details
This report arises from work commissioned
by Comhar SDC for the Comhar National Conference Towards sustainability in the National Development Plan, October 4-5, 2006, Dublin
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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