The Wellbeing of Nations surveys 180 countries and is the first global assessment of sustainability. It is intended to promote high levels of human and ecosystem wellbeing, demonstrate the practicality and potential of the Wellbeing Assessment method, and encourage countries, communities, and corporations to undertake their own wellbeing assessments. Wellbeing Assessment Wellbeing Assessment is a method of assessing sustainability that gives people and the ecosystem equal weight and provides a systematic and transparent way of: • deciding the main features of human and ecosystem wellbeing to be measured; • choosing the most representative indicators of those features
from: IUCN – World Conservation Union document: Wellbeing of nations Background in detail see also: IUCN – World Conservation Union XlnkS58E XlnkC189D