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After the global financial crisis of 2008, human capital, combined with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), was used as an indicator to assess the state of the welfare of a country, with reference also to alternative indicators such as the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) and the OECD Better Life Index (BLI). These indices represent the need to identify advanced forms of development measurement, overcoming metrics that are no longer adequate solely related to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The concept of well-being is no longer tied exclusively to the capacity of collective and/or individual income: quality of life is measured in terms of environmental and social quality, and in the ability of resilient communities to shape the common good.
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Bravo, L. (2022). Investing in Human Capital. Towards a New Paradigm of Urban and Social Resilience, Beyond the Notion of Profit. In: Carta, M., Perbellini, M.R., Lara-Hernandez, J.A. (eds) Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_20
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