Quality of Life and Development
A subjective and multidimensional measure of a person's well-being and happiness.
What is Quality of life?
The increasing interconnectedness and integration of the world's economies, cultures, and populations, driven by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.
What is Globalization?
The principle of meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is Sustainability?
Refers to a person’s economic and social position relative to others based on income, education, and occupation.
What is Social Economic Status (SES)?
An outdated geopolitical model used during the Cold War era to classify countries.
What is the Three World Model?
The increasing interdependence of world economies due to the growing scale of cross-border trade in commodities and services, flow of international capital, and the rapid spread of technologies.
What is Economic Globalization?
A person's or group's philosophy or perspective on how the natural world works, what their role is in it, and what are appropriate ethical and moral values in dealing with the environment.
What is an Environmental worldview?
A tool that examines state fragility by scoring countries from 0 to 120, where a higher score indicates more instability.
What is the Fragile State Index?
An extensive, church-administered, government-funded school system in Canada (officially from the 1880s to the late 20th century) with the objective of assimilating Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian and Christian culture.
What are residential schools?
The growth of a worldwide political system, both in size and complexity, often involving the rise of intergovernmental organization that require countries to cooperate and sometimes yield a degree of national sovereignty.
What is Political Globalization?
An environmental worldview that ascribes intrinsic moral value to all living organisms (not just humans).
What is a Biocentric/Indigenous worldview?
The control of less-developed countries by developed countries through indirect means, where transnational corporations exploit developing countries.
What is Neocolonialism?
A summary measure developed by the UN to assess long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
The transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world, resulting in a complex mix of homogenization and the hybridization of cultures.
What is Cultural Globalization?
A condition where a natural resource is finite and is not being replenished at a rate that can meet the demand of the population, often leading to competition, conflict, and a lower quality of life.
What is Resource Scarcity?
Measures economic disparity on a scale of 0 to 100. A score of 0 is perfect equality, while a score of 100 is maximal inequality.
What is the Gini Index?
A contemporary economic concept that describes the structured relationship and global inequality between the industrially developed countries and the generally less-developed countries.
What is the North-South Model?
A political philosophy that advocates a foreign policy of non-involvement in the political affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
An environmental worldview that places human beings at the center of the world, arguing that human interests and welfare are the most significant entities and moral considerations.
What is an Anthropocentric/Western worldview?
Increased violence and crime , negative impact on the economy , higher food prices and inflation , and citizens struggling to meet basic needs like accessing food and water.