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Define sustainable development.
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Improving lives today while ensuring future generations can also meet their needs, within environmental limits.
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Today + future + limits.
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Why is GDP per capita not enough for sustainability?
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It ignores inequality and environmental impacts, so it cannot show whether development is sustainable.
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GDP misses environment/inequality.
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Why is GDP per capita limited as a development measure?
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It does not show inequality, environmental damage, or well-being beyond income.
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GDP misses key factors.
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What is the Gini coefficient used for?
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Measuring income inequality (lower value means more equal).
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Lower = more equal.
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What is an indicator?
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A measure of one specific aspect of development or sustainability (social, economic, or environmental).
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One measure.
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Why do we use multiple indicators?
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No single indicator shows the full picture, so we combine social, economic, and environmental measures.
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Multiple measures.
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HDI values range between what numbers?
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0 to 1, where higher values indicate higher human development.
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0–1 scale.
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What does HDI measure (3 parts)?
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Life expectancy, education (years of schooling), and income per person.
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Health + education + income.
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What does PHDI add to HDI?
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It adjusts for planetary pressures using CO2 emissions and material footprint, showing environmental cost of development.
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HDI minus environmental pressure.
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For many environmental indicators, is higher or lower better?
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Lower is usually better (pollution, emissions, extinction rate).
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Lower = better.
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