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Scotland a happy place

Friday, 29 August 2008

Forward Scotland presented at the Royal Geographic Society international conference in London on the 27th of August.  We continue to challenge economic growth and its measure, GDP as being the best measure of societys progress in the 21st century. We propose a qualitative approach of self reported well-being that takes account of social, economic and environmental experiences to determine society's progress. Our paper indicates a real disconnect between tradition measures and goes beyond that normal narrow mental health centered view of wellbeing to introduce evidence that those in the most rural parts of Scotand enjoys the greatest levels of statisfaction in contrast to their levels of earnings, access to services, life expectancy and other traditional quantitative indicators. Read our paper: Happiness and Well-being in Scotland - Royal Geographic Society conference paper 2008 Tags See All Tags Royal Geographical Society  communities  sustainable  wellbeing

 

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