human well-being
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhumanandwell-being
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human
adjective
uk/ˈhjuː.mən/us/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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well-being
noun[U]
uk/ˌwelˈbiː.ɪŋ/us/ˌwelˈbiː.ɪŋ/
the state of feeling healthy ...
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(Definition ofhumanandwell-beingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Other critics go further, and say that the challenge model is inimical tohumanwell-being.
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Science realizes conditions of solidarity, and links ethics, politics andhumanwell-being.
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Dress is by no means an unimportant item inhumanwell-being.
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If the definition of sustainability is non-declininghumanwell-being, then what is argued is that human well-being is decreased unless all specified ecological constraints are observed.
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First, ethics is patently concerned with issues ofhumanwell-beingand happiness, and reason alone cannot account for these.
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Following this line of research one might argue that happiness represents only a part ofhumanwell-being.
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In this model, the "worst outcome" is not, however, defined purely in terms ofhumanwell-beingor human lives.
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Although people believed thathumanwell-beinghad supernatural causes, they also believed in human ability to affect these causes.
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Small changes in the extent of tropical forests can therefore have major impacts on climate, biodiversity andhumanwell-being.
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It is a rational judgment about a general form ofhumanwell-being, about the fulfillment of a human potentiality.
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Each rebels against this training, criticizing it for being based on too narrow an understanding ofhumanwell-being.
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Existing norms, social roles, and social practices are often obstacles tohumanwell-beingand autonomy (p. 37).
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But the prioritarian does not believe that so-called impersonal ideals have a life of their own, independent of our basic concern withhumanwell-being.
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Given a prior definition of sustainability, that of non-declining per capitahumanwell-being, two main theories have been proposed.
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Both resilience as a goal in itself and sustainability as an overarching goal essentially pertain to the temporal dimension ofhumanwell-being.
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It is not, as its title might suggest, a substantive inquiry into the relationships betweenhumanwell-beingand the state of the natural environment.
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This ignores relational and contextual elements inhumanwell-being, and the potentially crucial role of services in meeting such needs.
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The prioritarian does not think that our choice between two alternatives reduces to questions of aggregate (or collective)humanwell-being.
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Frivolous, whimsical choices may harm people directly and indirectly by weakening common values that secure them with a sense of togetherness, essential forhumanwell-being.
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We cater forhumanwell-beingby ambitiously overcoming, rather than abetting, what otherwise would happen naturally and to our disadvantage.
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In this case the concern is that the positive process of economic development and improvement inhumanwell-beingis too easily disrupted by external shocks.
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From the standpoint that values boostinghumanwell-being, the more prioritarian our weighting of well-being gains and losses, the more attractive hard paternalism appears.
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Protecting the capacity of ecosystems to sustainhumanwell-beingis of as much importance to poor countries as to those that are rich. 13.
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They then discuss whether they should also consider other inequalities relevant to overallhumanwell-being, many of which often disadvantage women.
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These three key factors that influencehumanwell-beingare inextricably linked to the health of the ecosystems in which people live and work.
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