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Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress

Ida Kubiszewski, +6 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
- Vol. 93, Iss: 93, pp 57-68
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In this article, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) has been used as an economic welfare indicator for 17 countries for which GPI has been estimated over the 1950-2003 time period.
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This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 564 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Real gross domestic product & Genuine progress indicator.

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Changes in the global value of ecosystem services

Robert Costanza, +8 more
- 01 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an updated estimate based on updated unit ecosystem service values and land use change estimates between 1997 and 2011, using the same methods as in the 1997 paper but with updated data, the estimate for the total global ecosystem services in 2011 is $125 trillion/yr (assuming updated unit values and changes to biome areas).
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The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

Sandra Díaz, +83 more
- 01 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework as discussed by the authors, which will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions.
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Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

Robert Costanza, +7 more
- 01 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the history leading up to these publications and the subsequent debates, research, institutions, policies, on-the-ground actions, and controversies they triggered.
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Development: Time to leave GDP behind

Robert Costanza, +9 more
- 16 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: Gross domestic product (GDP) is a misleading measure of national success as discussed by the authors, and countries should act now to embrace new metrics, urge Robert Costanza and colleagues, and they do not.
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Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Robert Costanza, +9 more
- 01 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate alternative methods to relate the SDGs to overall measures of sustainable wellbeing that can motivate and guide the process of global societal change, and propose a sustainable wellbeing index (SWI) that connects with and complements the SDG dashboard.
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Ed Diener, +3 more
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Frequently Asked Questions (1)
Q1. What are the contributions in "Beyond gdp: measuring and achieving global genuine progress" ?

The Genuine Progress Indicator ( GPI ) this paper is a measure of economic welfare that measures the economic welfare generated by economic activity, essentially counting the depreciation of community capital as an economic cost.