The recently-adopted global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will have significant
implications for national development planning in both developed and develo** countries …

The economics of happiness, or subjective well being, is an expanding field, with a growing
number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other …

This study examines the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, electricity
consumption and economic growth within a panel vector error correction model for five …

The focus of this paper is the relationship between subjective measures of well-being and
individual environmental attitudes. We use an ordered probit model to examine the …

The debate surrounding the use of subjective measures of well-being for policy purposes
has intensified in recent years. Many social scientists are arguing that the time is right for …

It is commonly accepted that, in order to achieve sustainability, there is a need for societal
transformation, which requires institutional, social/cultural, organizational and technological …

The policy recommendations of most economists are based on the rational actor model. The
emphasis is on achieving efficient allocation by insuring that property rights are completely …

Sustainability is a system property; therefore, products/services/technologies/organisations
cannot be sustainable on their own but they may be elements of sustainable systems. In …

Large infrastructure projects generate irreducible trade-offs between different societal values
towards nature. We asked what kinds of values and knowledges are articulated in decision …

We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, measured as sulphur dioxide
emissions, environmental disasters, traffic congestion, access to parkland and well-being in …