Whether humanity can continue sustaining recent trends in human well-being while conserving and restoring Earth's ecological heritage is up to us.
Instead, this is a period of vibrant activism that has made impressive improvements in human well-being.
Most significantly, the publications offer strong support for the important role nearby natural environments play in human well-being.
If germ-line engineering becomes part of medical practice, it could lead to transformative changes in human well-being, with consequences to people's life span, identity, and economic output.
Measuring Happiness is a fascinating book for anyone interested in human well-being and happiness and is essential reading for doctoral students and researchers wishing to take the field of happiness economics into the future.
An ecosystem services perspective can provide a useful means of understanding, in human well-being terms, the type, scale and value of environmental impacts deriving from the deployment of renewable energy technologies.
And I start with the success because it's very important to keep in mind that from the close of World War II through some time in the 1980s, roughly speaking, the world enjoyed growth in crop productivity that enabled historically unprecedented improvements in human well-being.
We argue that ecosystem services should be defined as the interactions (i.e. processes) of the ecosystem that produce a change in human well-being, while ecosystem components or goods, i.e. countable as biomass units, are only proxies in the assessment of such changes.
For economists, what matters is not how ecosystem services are classified, but what change in human well-being results from increasing, reducing or qualitatively varying their supply.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese people have entered the country's new middle class--one of the greatest and fastest increases in human well-being ever achieved.
