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The Green Future Index and the Legatum Prosperity Index are used as important tools to assess environmental sustainability as well as social and economic development. These indices allow countries to establish a balance between economic growth targets and environmental factors. The study aims to evaluate the relationship between green future and welfare. The predicted relationship between the Green Future Index and the Legatum Welfare Index was evaluated with canonical correlation analysis. Canonical correlation analysis is a statistical method used to calculate maximum relationship between two or more groups of variables. While the sample group of the study consists of OECD countries, the data set is indicators for 2023. In line with the findings obtained, it has been determined that there is a statistically significant and negative relationship between green future and welfare. This result shows that Green Future Index, that is, environmental sustainability measures, has a reverse connection with the open economies sub-dimension reflecting prosperity. The results therefore indicate the challenge of balancing green future goals and economic growth. The factor that adds unique value to the study and makes it important in this field is the use of statistical analysis method, which has not been used simultaneously for these indices in the literature before, and with the results obtained in this direction, the green policy framework for the future can be drawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we assess the effect of ecological construction in China during 2008 to 2014. The effect of ecological construction is divided into green economy, green society, and green environment. A network data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed to measure the total level of ecological construction in China and each region. According to the results, we find that the total level of ecological construction of China is still low. At the same time, there are also significant differences between regions. The regions with a developed economy have better performance on ecological construction. We also find that environmental protection is still the weak link of ecological construction in various regions. Hence, local governments still need to develop a green economy and increase investment on environmental protection in the future - especially on pollution control facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The trade perspective of sustainability which is implemented today at global level is at the heart of the Environmental issues. Stakeholders who experience difficulties in competing at a territorial level, for an efficient management of social, economic and human capital, are led to using environmental dumping policies. This strategy makes the natural capital unable to sustain the need for eco-system services linked to the three determinants of well-being sustainability. The green society's conceptual framework is, according to us, a sustainable solution, under four conditions: 1. the implementation of Environmental empowerment; 2. global environmental rules; 3. fielding of strategies of non-homologation of territorial systems; 4. give voice to particular environmental stakeholders through non-profit organizations that operate in the environmental field. In the present work, the thesis that will be submitted to a general reflection is precisely that the Green Society is the answer to the Environmental issue. It should prevent it from becoming more and more limiting in pursuing the new project of society, in territorial systems put in crisis by global competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustainability of well-being requires that all dimensions of development, from social and economical to environmental, territorial and generational ones, contribute all together to its achievement. Moreover, ethics and equity are two others fundamental features of a development model that aims to the sustainability. Starting from these considerations, this paper focuses on the important role that the environmental issue plays in pursuing the sustainability of well-being as a whole and not just as a simple and exclusive tool for obtaining environmental sustainability. To this end, the paper analyses a particular feature of well-being sustainability, namely, equity as a fundamental purpose to be achieved by activating the green society strategy. Advancing to a green society, though, requires a set of actions that need to be implemented so that in time the noticeable and specific features of natural, human, economical and social capital stocks are kept and maintained. Finally, giving attention to the role of excellence sustainability is meant to offer insight to policy makers, as well as to all of the other actors of civil and economical, not only environmental, society, on the necessary strategies to be initiated in order to form and sustain responsible behaviours of individuals, institutions and companies, as real levers for the sustainability of human well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]