Quality of life and sustainable development
Quality of life and sustainable development

Summary/Abstract: Although most of scientists engaged in quality of life researches agree in many aspects of the definition of the very subject of their discipline, there are also many controversies. The main parting line divides objective and subjective definitions of quality of life, which, however, by many researchers are treated as complementary. Subjective indicators of quality of life, although better complying with the sense of well-being of individuals, are often difficult to be measured, because of cognitive and affective biases of humans. Objective indicators, although less inconvenient in finding their values, may seem to be arbitrary ones and require justification, possibly by implying their interdependence with subjective sense of quality of life. On the other hand, objective indicators are strictly connected with the definition of sustainable development: quality of life is a substantial part of the definition of sustainable development, while sustainability of development seems to be necessary for high quality of human life. This paper is a short review of the main concepts concerning quality of life and its relationship with sustainability of development.

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