Built Environment through a Well-being Lens
The report explores how the built environment (i.e. housing, transport, infrastructure and urban design/land use) interacts with people’s lives and affects their well-being and its sustainability. It primarily draws on the OECD’s Well-being Framework to highlight the many inter-relationships between the built environment and both material and non-material aspects of people’s life, focusing on some key well-being dimensions (e.g. health, safety and social connections). It defines the built environment through a well-being lens and outlines implications for its measurement, leveraging literature, current practice and official data. It then describes the state of the built environment and its components in OECD countries and their inter-relationships with well-being and sustainability. Policy examples of an integrated well-being policy approach in the built environment context are also highlighted. This report is intended to "scope" relevant data and existing research in order to lay ground for further work on this issue.
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The state of the built environment and how it impacts well-being and sustainability
The built environment has multiple impacts on people’s well-being and sustainability: from the satisfaction of basic human needs to the provision of space for various activities. The built environment can also undermine people’s current and future well-being by generating significant costs or creating pressures on the environment and ecosystems. A poor-quality built environment (i.e. housing, transport, infrastructure, urban design/land use) may also aggravate the ingrained inequalities between population groups in the society. This chapter presents the main inter-relationships between the built environment, well-being and sustainability and provides an overview of its current state in OECD countries, drawing from available internationally comparable data.
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