We have had a Happy Planet Index, a Gross National Happiness target and National Accounts of Wellbeing.
Some of the new measures, like the self-explanatory Happy Planet Index (H.P.I ., you might have heard about.
The Happy Planet Index essentially divides the damage we do environmentally by the payback through life expectancy and satisfaction.
Loh, J. et al. The Living Planet Index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity.
A third approach is the "happy planet index," devised by the New Economics Foundation, a liberal think tank.
The Living Planet Index only measures populations of vertebrates, but it does so in both tropical and temperate regions.
According to the United Nations, Bhutan is one of the world's 10 least-developed countries, yet according to the Happy Planet Index, it is somewhere near the top.
In Britain the torch is being carried by the New Economics Foundation which, among other things, produces what it calls the "Happy Planet Index".
This data was then, for the first time, used to create a representative "Living Planet Index" (LPI), reflecting the state of all 45,000 known vertebrates.
In just forty years between 1970 and 2010 the global Living Planet Index (LPI), which which measures trends in thousands of vertebrate species, has declined by 52%.
WWF's Living Planet Index, which is conducted once every two years, has found that Australia requires 6.25 global hectares per person per year.
