Category Archives: Quality of life
CAPITAL-ADAPT – first series of workshops started!
Für den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel und die Möglichkeiten der Anpassung spielen neben technischen Aspekten auch Wissen und Information, Bildung, Gesundheit, das Netz an sozialen Beziehungen und Engagement im Gemeindeleben eine bedeutsame Rolle. Diese Aspekte stehen im Zentrum des KlimaNetz Projekts (www.klimanetz.at), welches das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Rolle von Human- und Sozialkapital bezüglich Anpassung an und Umgang mit Klimawandel legt. Am 7. und 14.10.2011 fanden in den Projektgemeinden Virgen und Klosterneuburg die ersten Projekt-Workshops statt.
Assessing social sustainability: social sustainability and its multicriteria assessment in a sustainability scenario for Germany
Spangenberg, J., Omann, I. (2006)
In: International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development 2006 – Vol. 1, No.4 pp. 318 – 348
Abstract
Social sustainability is a qualitative criterion, which has to be applied to different domains, i.e., the economy, society and the population. It is challenged by current political and economic developments. Based on [...]
Quality of life and Sustainability. Links beteween sustainable behaviour, social capital and well-being
Grünberger S. & Omann I. (2011)
Presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE): “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis”
In this paper we assemble scientific research on the interrelations of subjective well-being and social capital in order to present how social capital influences subjective well-being on the [...]
THANCS – a process to address tensions that emerge in/with a transition towards sustainable development
Omann I. & Rauschmayer F. (2011)
Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological
Economics (ESEE): “Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis”
‘I want to bring my children safely to school. It is raining outside, we are late. They could go there by public transport. There is the car, [...]
Sigrid Grünberger at the First International Conference Exploring the Multi-dimensions of Well-Being in Birmingham, UK
To further our understanding of well-being as a holistic concept, Birmingham City University, in partnership with RIBA, was hosting the first international well-being conference [...] from July 18th to 19th 2011 in Birmingham.
The pursuit of high levels of well-being is a key goal of society, yet well-being is a complex multidimensional issue, difficult to define
