and academically. However, most research efforts concentrate on the development and promotion of individual indicators …, while paying less attention to the wide range of indicators already available and to theoretical insights. As a result, few … classification schemes of alternative measures exist today to help policy-makers in selecting a proper set of indicators. This paper …

paper offers a review of seminal and current research in the fields of social indicators, human development, ecological … methods these studies employed to identify and assess locally relevant well-being indicators, and addressing some of the …

There are barriers to the significant use of subjective well-being indicators in policy making. These barriers can be … overcome, but this will take a co-ordinated effort. These indicators can play multiple roles. They can stimulate public debate …, inform the development of formal or informal economic models, influence the choice of other indicators more directly related …

In the recent years a large literature on indicators of well-being and quality of life has proliferated, all departing … from a strict economic view of these phenomena. While all these indicators sign an important step for the recognition of … the pros and cons of the existing approaches/indicators and derive whether they are rooted in the human development …

In this article, the sociopolitical conditions of emergence and institutionalization of new indicators of well-being on …

In recent years, interest in aggregate or composite indicators of economic and social well-being at the community … attempted to develop social indicators to monitor trends in the welfare of their citizens. The objective of this paper is to … provide a survey of the major indicators of economic and social well-being that have been developed at the national and …