Sustainable Human Development for European Countries

Valeria Costantini and Salvatore Monni

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2005, vol. 6, issue 3, 329-351

Abstract: In recent years, sustainable development has represented one of the most important policy goals at the global level. How to design specific policy actions and how to measure performance and results continue to present a challenge. The aim of this paper is to identify a numerical measure of 'sustainable human development' by enlarging human development with more specific environmental aspects. The sustainability condition has been directly analysed on the well-being side. Building a complex Sustainable Human Development Index may be a hard task because of data availability. European countries represent a useful pilot area for testing the methodology. The key factors of effective sustainable human development are emphasized, comparing a Sustainable Human Development Index with existing traditional indicators such as the Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index.

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Human Development Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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