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Quality of life

Quality of life. 9th seminar Jaroslav Biolek. Sustainability and QoL. IUCN: „ Sustainability is development that improves the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems“. QoL x Sustainability.

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Quality of life

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  1. Quality of life 9th seminar Jaroslav Biolek

  2. Sustainability and QoL IUCN: „Sustainability is development that improves the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems“

  3. QoL x Sustainability • Relation between sustainability and quality of life - >overlapping metaconcepts • Approach to person – environment relation • Differenttime scale-level, determinants, indicators… • Different relative importance given to environmental exposure, methods to measure… • QoL – more approachesandconcepts x sustainability – normative concept • QoL – evaluation of thecurrentsituation x sustainability – aim, planningandfuture • Conflicts? Hedonistic well-being x strong environmental sustainability - >find a balance betweentwocompetingperspectives

  4. Discussion • Problem region: • Mining area – huge city withtremendouspopulation, men are dependent on work in coal mine close to city, butit has negative impacts on the city environment, thestatewants to stop mining… • 2 perspectives: • …iftheminingwillbestopped • …iftheminingwillcontinue • Whatisyour vision fromQol x sustainable perspective? Are theredifferences? Which? • …iftheminingwillbestopped • …iftheminingwillcontinue

  5. Task to nextlesson Think of how to implement sustainable point of view in QoL research Shouldthegeography help people to improve quality of life? Shouldweparticipateintothisprocess? Fromthe sustainable point of view? Thinkabout a specific research area in Brno

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