Concept of Ensuring Environmental Human Well-Being

Understanding Human Well - being

Investigating Environmental Identity, Well-Being, and Meaning

The present article is concerned with the relationships between the natural environment and identity, emotional well-being, and meaning. In a sample of university students, it was hypothesized that frequency of experience of the natural environment and the degree of meaning obtained from such experience would positively predict both well-being and environmental identity. Both hypotheses were pa...

Environmental volunteer well-being: Managers’ perception and actual well-being of volunteers

Background: Environmental volunteering can increase well-being, but environmental volunteer well-being has rarely been compared to participant well-being associated with other types of volunteering or nature-based activities. This paper aims to use a multidimensional approach to well-being to explore the immediately experienced and later remembered well-being of environmental volunteers and to ...

Comparative Analysis of Indicators of Well-being Using Environmental Accounting

Despite the abundance of sustainable development research and literature, there is a need to substantiate and quantify the links between human well-being and the environment. The National Environmental Accounting Database (NEAD, Sweeney et al. 2007, these proceedings), which quantifies the resource basis of 134 nations (ca. 2000), was used to provide a uniform set of indicators of resource use,...

The Globalization of Human Well-Being

mainly on whether it exacerbates income inequality between the rich and the poor. But, as opponents of globalization frequently note, human well-being is not synonymous with wealth. The central issue, therefore, is not whether income gaps are growing but whether globalization advances well-being and, if inequalities in well-being have expanded, whether that is because the rich have advanced at ...