Sustainability and Well-Being: A Happy Synergy

Investigating the nexus of sustainability and well-being, Christopher Barrington-Leigh says the sources of lasting improvements in well-being are largely non-material, and thus in better balance with nature.

"This converging body of research indicates that well-being and ecological sustainability, goals sometimes viewed as contradictory, are in fact complementary. Emphasizing social drivers of well-being counters the conventional focus on economic growth and fosters the pro- social attitudes and behaviors necessary to live in better balance with nature."

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