Poverty, balanced well-being and knowledge: challenges to sustainability

Journal title RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Author/s Maria Carmen De Angelis
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2016/2
Language English Pages 11 P. 19-29 File size 156 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2016-002003
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Today Global Society is gradually moving towards a structural "approach to Well-Being. This virtuous way, capable to lead Global Society on its own sustainability path, passes through the resolution of numerous challenges. Among these, it is necessary to overcome poverty, rebalancing the relationship between Material Living Conditions and Quality of life, to increase knowledge. Overcoming these challenges to Well- Being Sustainability constitutes a necessary condition also to fight the various forms of food poverty, emphasize the centrality of food, compared to quality of life’s issues; promote a culture of food sustainability. In this paper, there will be presented and discussed some of the reasons of this statement.

Keywords: Well-being sustainability, poverty, knowledge, Agenda 2030, COP 21-22, food issue.

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Maria Carmen De Angelis, Poverty, balanced well-being and knowledge: challenges to sustainability in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 2/2016, pp 19-29, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2016-002003