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10 - Global Quality Accounts (GQA) and Quality Indicators

from Part II - The New Strategy: A Community for Well-being and Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2019

Rutger Hoekstra
Affiliation:
MetricsForTheFuture.com, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
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Summary

The system accounts in the previous chapters provide a description of the developments of the environment, society and economy as well as the distribution. But the accounts do not answer the question: Are things getting better? In the Global Quality Accounts (GQA), the data from the system accounts are assessed using a quality perspective. In economics, welfare economics and the capital approach are most common, but there are many others as well, from social sciences or natural sciences. There is no perfect approach, just multiple ways of looking at systemic progress. Each of the systems leads to a quality indicator, which provide society with different views.

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Replacing GDP by 2030
Towards a Common Language for the Well-being and Sustainability Community
, pp. 208 - 237
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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