The Planetary wellbeing initiative: pursuing the sustainable development goals in higher education
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We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many of which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive and novel coordinated scientific and societal efforts on an unprecedented scale. Universities and other academic institutions have the opportunity and responsibility to assume a leading role in an era when the destiny of the planet is precisely in the hands of human beings. Drawing on the Planetary Health project promoted by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet, Pompeu Fabra University launched in 2018 the Planetary Wellbeing Initiative, a long-term institutional strategy also animated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Planetary Wellbeing might be defined as the highest attainable standard of wellbeing for human and non-human beings and their social and natural systems. Developing the potential of these new concepts involves a substantial theoretical and empirical effort in many different fields, all of them interrelated by the crosscutting challenges of global complexity, interdisciplinarity, and urgency. Close collaboration of science, humanities, and culture is more desperately needed now than ever before in the history of humankind.
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Later waves of positive psychology and wellbeing science are expanding the focus to existential positive psychology, collective wellbeing and planetary wellbeing.
“While these early foundations oriented psychology away from a skewed focus on dysfunction and illbeing, later “waves” of positive psychology and the more heterogeneous discipline of wellbeing science are expanding the focus to existential positive psychology (Wong, 2019; Wong et al., 2021), collective (social) (Atkinson et al., 2020; Waters et al., 2021) and planetary wellbeing (Antó et al., 2021;”
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- Authors
- Antó, J. M., Martí, J. L., Casals, J., Bou-Habib, P., Casal, P., Fleurbaey, M., Frumkin, H., Jiménez-Morales, M., Jordana, J., Lancelotti, C., Llavador, H., Mélon, L., Solé, R., Subirada, F., & Williams, A.
- Affiliations
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Paris School of Economics (FR)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Antó, Josep M.
- Martí, José Luis
- ORCID
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-03-18
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3372
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3136795544
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 5
- FWCI
- 19.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Sustainability in Higher Education
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Education › University Challenges and Reforms
- Keywords
- planetary health, Sustainable Development Goals, planetary well-being, interdisciplinarity, global complexity
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