The New Economics Foundation has developed a matrix of five key performance measures to get beyond indicators of "stuff" such as GDP: job quality, wellbeing, health, environment and fairness.
We'll continue the video interview series in 2013, alongside more content that looks at the links between health, wellbeing and the environment.
Once more, the fabric of life, the very foundation of our wellbeing – the natural environment – comes a distant second to political convenience.
"The results are clear – putting both health and wellbeing, and the environment, at the heart of buildings is a no brainer for businesses' employees and their bottom line," said Terri Wills, CEO of the World Green Building Council.
CVT is one of the many international NGOs, UN agencies and local organisations providing mental health support to refugees of the Syrian crisis, a growing recognition of the significant impact a war or natural disaster can have on people's mental health and psychosocial (psychological and social environment) wellbeing.
Additionally, the EPA itself issued an endangerment finding in 2009 stating that carbon dioxide along with other pollutants threaten human health and the wellbeing of our environment.
As attorney general, he's been accused of prioritizing industry interests over the health and wellbeing of the environment and his constituents.
Measures included physical, cognitive, psychological and social functioning, lifestyle behaviour, physical environment, wellbeing and care utilisation.
Although greenspaces in built-up areas (GSB) heavily contribute to human health and wellbeing in anthropized environments, large-scale data and information on GSB are still lacking.
Most of the little work that has been done on this looks at the negative side of wellbeing – the effects of environment on mental and physical ill-health.
