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<div class="column"><p class="">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences <span class="highwire-cite-metadata highwire-cite-metadata-date" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">March 23, 2021 </span><span class="highwire-cite-metadata-volume highwire-cite-metadata" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">118 </span><span class="highwire-cite-metadata-issue highwire-cite-metadata" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(12) </span><span class="highwire-cite-metadata-pages highwire-cite-metadata" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">e1907351118</span></p><p class=""><span class="highwire-cite-metadata highwire-cite-metadata-doi" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907351118" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 150); outline: 0px !important;" class="">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907351118</a></span></p><p class=""><b class="">Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to
serve research on sustainability
</b></p><p class="">Wolfgang Lutz, Erich Striessnig, Anna Dimitrova, Simone Ghislandi, Anastasia Lijadi,
Claudia Reiter, Sonja Spitzer, and Dilek Yildiz</p><p class=""><b class="">abstract</b></p><p class="">Sustainable development (SD) as popularized by the Brundtland
Commission and politically enshrined in the Sustainable Develop-
ment Goals has been the explicit focus of sustainability science.
While there is broad agreement that the trend of human well-being
(W) over time should serve as a sustainability criterion, the literature
so far has mostly addressed this in terms of its determinants rather
than focusing on W itself. There is broad agreement that an indica-
tor for W should have multiple constituents, clearly going beyond
gross domestic product. Here, we propose a tailor-made indicator to
serve precisely this purpose following a set of specified desiderata,
including its applicability to flexibly defined subnational populations
by gender, place of residence, ethnicity, and other relevant charac-
teristics. The indicator, years of good life (YoGL), reflects the evident
fact that in order to be able to enjoy any quality of life, one has to be
alive and thus is primarily based on life expectancy. However, since
mere survival is not considered good enough, life years are counted
conditional on meeting minimum standards in two dimensions: the
objective dimension of capable longevity (consisting of being out of
absolute poverty and enjoying minimal levels of physical and cognitive health) and the subjective dimension of overall life satisfaction.
We illustrate the calculation of this indicator for countries and sub-populations at different stages of development and with different
degrees of data availability. </p></div></div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">*****************************************************</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"Forests of the Americas and the Caribbean are undergoing rapid change </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><i class="">as human populations increase </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">….. 80% of the forest types and 85% of the current forest area is potentially threatened”</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Open access article here: <<<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12623" class="">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12623</a>>></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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