TY  - CHAP
AU  - Maria Alcala-Orozco
AU  - Jenny Palomares-Bolaños
AU  - Neda Alvarez-Ortega
AU  - Jesus Olivero-Verbel
AU  - Karina Caballero-Gallardo
ED  - Ryan Merlin Yonk
Y1  - 2021-03-01
PY  - 2021
T1  - Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications of Gold Mining in Afro-Descendant Communities from Colombia
N2  - The authors of this volume provide a window into what influences the quality of life, why people live longer, and why we are relatively better off compared to decades ago. While the potential ways of measuring life quality are abundant, understanding what causes improvement requires careful study and consideration. This volume provides useful insight into these challenges and helps to highlight a clear and important separation between wellbeing and standard of living, both relevant to assessing the quality of life. Standard of living refers to the material welfare of a group. Wellbeing, on the other hand, encapsulates harder-to-measure subjective preferences. Together they help us to understand the quality of life of certain groups at specific times, and in specific communities.
BT  - Improving Quality of Life
SP  - Ch. 9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96407
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.96407
SN  - 978-1-83968-814-0
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -