Lasting community wellbeing: Comparison of Lisbon and Tokyo

Kumagai, Yoichi; Partidário, Maria Rosário

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“…Auxiliary to this, community approach shall be helpful in furthering the attainment of SDGs requiring greater degree of autonomy an interdependence (Stevens & Morris, 2001), capacity building in innovative solutions by individuals, decision makers to embrace the community approach for accomplishing the commitment of sustainable development (Kumagai & Partidario, 2019). Attainment of SDGs 3 and 8 would require prosperous economies to alter their policies regarding patterns of work.…”

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Are the Sustainable Development Goals really sustainable? A policy perspective

Jain

2020

Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development seeks human well-being without stretching the ecological limits. It is assumed that if sustainable development is aspired at global level, the goals prescribed should be within the planetary limits. A comparison of the scores of countries with respect to Sustainable Development Goal Index (SDGI) and scores on Ecological Footprints (EF) portrays quite a grim picture where countries with high EF have attained high scores on SDGI. A further investigation into the causal relationship between SDGI, Human Development Index (HDI) and EF reveals that SDGs are being achieved in an unsustainable manner. The environmental policy perspective of the total, direct and indirect effects of EF on SDGs estimated through path analysis unveils that the existing mode of achieving SDGs is at the cost of environmental degradation. SDGs have shown improvement through the improvement in the level of HDI, where human development is being attained in an environmentally unsustainable manner. The paper establishes that SDGs achieved are ecologically unjustifiable, and a reorientation of the existing patterns of human development well within the limits of ecological capacity of the earth is to be targeted.

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Are the Sustainable Development Goals really sustainable? A policy perspective

Jain

2020

Sustainable Development

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“…The integrated analysis of individual, community, and environment, enhances the strategic understanding of mental health phenomena, and supports the improved spatial planning of neighbourhoods in local decision-making processes. Such strategic analysis enables an assessment of planning actions in relation to the risks and opportunities for the mental health and well-being of the community [14,37]. It is therefore fundamental to include the assessment of mental health conditions when developing sustainable actions which are place-and people-oriented [24].…”

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Strategic Assessment of Neighbourhood Environmental Impacts on Mental Health in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Strategic Focus and Assessment Framework at the Local Level

2022

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Scientific evidence shows that each place/environment generates specific conditions with associated impacts on the mental health and well-being of the population. A holistic, multilevel and integrated environmental approach to mental health enhances the understanding of this phenomena, supporting the local decision-making processes to improve spatial planning of neighbourhood environments. The aim of this study is to develop a strategic assessment framework, based on four municipalities in the Lisbon Region (Portugal), that explores policy and planning initiatives capable of generating favourable neighbourhood environmental conditions for mental health while also detecting risks. Using baseline results of significant statistical associations between individuals’ perceptions of their neighbourhood environment and their mental health in the Lisbon Region, a Strategic Focus on Environmental and Mental Health Assessment framework (SEmHA) was built, by applying the methodology ‘Strategic Thinking for Sustainability’ in Strategic Environmental Assessment, developed by Partidário in 2012. Taking into account the promotion of the population’s mental health, four critical decision factors of neighbourhood environments were identified: (1) public space quality (e.g., improving sense of place), (2) physical environment quality (e.g., low levels of noise exposure), (3) professional qualification and creation of economic activities (e.g., attracting new economic activities), and (4) services and facilities (e.g., improving access to health and education services). The proposed strategic focus and assessment framework contributes to ensuring that interventions in neighbourhood environments truly achieve community mental health benefits and reduce inequalities, thus helping policy makers to assess impacts at the local level.

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“…From Figure 1, such support can be built via social or country's help and can be conveyed to erect natural environment (Schleicher et al, 2018) and modify infrastructure. The satisfaction of natural environment, infrastructure, safety, and support (Cooper et al, 2008; Kumagai & Partidario, 2019) lead to enhancing the quality of people's life thereafter promoting their well‐being. Another metric, HLE (measured in the form of healthy life expectancy, longevity, or live longer), affords persons more opportunities to keep connection with people (Steptoe et al, 2015).…”

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Toward achieving sustainable development goal 3: Determinants, innovations, and reactions from 110 countries with different income levels

2021

Sustainable Development

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Well-being has a major impact on sustained development of economies worldwide; and unionized well-being-improving decisions are key to achieving SDG3, but research on such is rare. This article investigates the determinants of well-being using Life Ladder (LLD), log GDP per capita (LGDP), social support (SSP), and life expectancy at birth (HLE) for panels of 110 countries selected from World Happiness Report 2020, and grouped according to income levels. The empirical panel Granger causality results show that LGDP, SSP and HLE Granger causes LLD in the long-run for low, upper-middle, and high-income countries; but find no evidence of such for the Lower-Middle Income Countries and Global Panel. Evidence from the impulse response and variance decomposition analysis shows that majority of the innovations needed to promote well-being can be found within LLD itself. The policy implication is that though all countries plan to improve well-being, the determinants, innovations, and corresponding reactions vary across countries. K E Y W O R D Simpulse response and variance decomposition analysis, income-based grouping of countries, panel granger causality, sustainable development, unionized well-being-improving decision making, well-being 1 | BACKGROUND Countries around the globe are striving to build economies that are sustainable. This is clearly depicted by the drafting and adoption of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; UN, 2020). The 17 integrated SDGs cover a wide spectrum from poverty reduction to decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation, and infrastructure to improve well-being (Diaz-Sarachaga et al., 2018). At the macroeconomic level, sustained increase in average income levels often proxied with growth in gross national income (GNI) per capita are likened to economic development and poverty reduction. Though significant increase in GNI per capita depicts economic growth, sustained improvement that advances and maximizes the well-being of the population is desirable. Thus, improving the well-being of people is key to building long-lasting development of countries globally (Deaton, 2007). The world has made significant improvement in well-being over the past decade. Facts from the World Happinness Report (2020) (WHR2020) puts Finland as the world's most happier country (with happiness score of 7.809 on a 10-point scale) and Afghanistan as the least happiest (happiness score of 2.567). It is worth noting that the variation in happiness rankings have close association with disparities in income. As the world gradually transition to an integrated whole, collaboration, and cooperating among countries can help improve well-being of people worldwide.Based on the undeniable linkage between well-being and income (Zhang & Awaworyi Churchill, 2020), the players in the collaborated network can be selected using income metrics.Facts from the WHR2020 and Helne and Hirvilammi (2015) suggest that when measuring well-being at the country level, most countries pay attention to happiness (proxied wi...

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Lasting community wellbeing: Comparison of Lisbon and Tokyo

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Are the Sustainable Development Goals really sustainable? A policy perspective

Are the Sustainable Development Goals really sustainable? A policy perspective

Strategic Assessment of Neighbourhood Environmental Impacts on Mental Health in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Strategic Focus and Assessment Framework at the Local Level

Toward achieving sustainable development goal 3: Determinants, innovations, and reactions from 110 countries with different income levels

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