NOTES
1 Evidence and references in support of the claims presented in this Summary are presented in a companion technical report.
2 Evidence and references in support of the claims presented in this Summary are presented in a companion technical report.
3 See, for example, the Taxonomy developed by the OECD in the context of the “Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies” (
www.oecd.org/progress/taxonomy).
4 Note however that there is ongoing research to measure socio-economic inequalities to health in a standard way. See for example the European Union Working Group in Socio-economic Inequalities to Health.
5 Environmental insecurity is not developed here since this issue is already considered above.
6 While insecurity is dealt with as an objective factor shaping quality of life, it can also be considered as a cross-cutting issue because of the large variety of risks the individuals are exposed to. The placement of insecurity among the objective factors has been debated at some length and is conventional.
7 Evidence and references in support of the claims presented in this Summary are presented in a companion technical report.
8 As for local pollution damages, these are difficult to estimate without location-specific data. Nevertheless, an augmented version of ANS for local pollution is also provided by taking into account health damage due to urban air pollution (particulate matter PM10).
9 Some other points of convergence can be found in reactions by the European Environmental Agency to the first draft of this Commission’s summary report.