Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Preprints and Working Papers
  4. SWICE position paper on wellbeing
 
working paper

SWICE position paper on wellbeing

Nick, Sascha  
March 25, 2023

This document aims to help ensure consistent use of wellbeing in all work packages and activities of SWICE (Sustainable Wellbeing for the Individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition). Sustainability is usually defined as a practice that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland 1987), which corresponds to wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. SWICE aims to answer the question for Switzerland: how to improve wellbeing for all with a much lower resource footprint, especially energy? While completely absent from political discourse, this question is probably the most important one the country is facing. Simply constraining resource use without changing the way society is organized will reduce overall wellbeing. A positive outcome requires a culture of sufficiency, better provisioning systems, reduced inequalities, as well as adapting rules, laws, and institutions. Identifying and validating such conditions is the focus of SWICE.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés