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Built Environment through a Well-being Lens

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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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Viewing the built environment through a well-being lens: What it means for definitions and measurement

This chapter discusses the definition and measurement of the built environment, as seen through the lens of the OECD Well-being Framework. Interactions between well-being and the built environment span material, social, relational and environmental aspects of people’s lives. The OECD Well-being Framework, which monitors current well-being as well as resources for the future, can thus be helpful in systematically assessing the impact of the built environment both on people’s well-being in the present and on sustainability. This chapter examines a wide spectrum of definitions of the built environment, from both governments and academia, and identifies the key components of the built environment (i.e. housing, transport, urban design/land use and technical infrastructure) that have particular relevance for people’s well-being. The chapter then introduces 25 indicators, selected to help assess the quantity and the quality of the built environment and highlight its inter-relationships with people’s well-being.

English Also available in: Korean

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