Linking sustainability and happiness. What kind of happiness?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/geosc-2020-0007" target="_blank" >https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/geosc-2020-0007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2020-0007" target="_blank" >10.2478/geosc-2020-0007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Linking sustainability and happiness. What kind of happiness?

Original language description

Sustainability is part of the scientific mainstream; in the following paper we connect it with the phenomenon of happiness, which is becoming a discussed concept not only among researchers but also amongst public. This is due to the fact that today‘s society has become a consumer society. This knowledge has provoked criticism of the prevailing lifestyle. The unprecedented growth of prosperity in the second half of the last century and at the beginning of the 21st century was achieved at the cost of environmental devastation. This presented the urgent question of how to improve the quality of life or bring happiness to a growing number of people. At the same time, efforts to replace GDP as a general measure of development with quality of life began to grow. In connection with happiness, it is important that it is defined in two ways: hedonic or eudaimonic. The aim of the paper is to find out which form of happiness is sustainable on the basis of the analysis of relevant works. Happiness is understood as part of the subjective dimension of quality of life, it represents the highest level of well-being. The combination of sustainability and quality of life or happiness is not new, some authors consider quality of life as the fourth pillar of sustainability. A key criterion for assessing which happiness is sustainable and which is not is the following assumption: The happiness of us -contemporaries - cannot be achieved at the expense of future generations. The knowledge -which of the forms is sustainable - is the result of the analysis of both forms of happiness.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GeoScape

ISSN

1802-1115

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

70-79

UT code for WoS article

000546451300007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090286267