Starter quiz
- When we consider intergovernmental organisations, what does U.N. stand for?
- 'United Nations' ✓
- According to the UN, how many countries are there?
- 63
- 103
- 153
- 193 ✓
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- Which of the following is not an aim of the UN's development programme?
- poverty elimination
- economic growth
- human development
- space exploration ✓
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- Where are the headquarters of the UN? ______ in the USA.
- 'New York' ✓
- The UN's current goals are known as the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable development balances current needs with those of ...
- future generations. ✓
- past generations.
- distant friends.
- local communities.
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- What was the last set of UN development goals known as? (They had to be delivered in 15 years by 2015.)
- Major Development Goals
- Mission Development Goals
- Millennium Development Goals ✓
- Model Development Goals
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Exit quiz
- Which of these is a multi-aspect measure of social and economic well-being?
- built environment
- income
- access to safe water
- quality of life ✓
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- Which of these mean the parts of places in which we live that have been built by people, rather than exist in nature.
- built environment ✓
- goods and services
- lived experience
- local habitats
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- Reorder the following five stages of economic development or 'modernisation' into the order suggested by Rostow.
- 1⇔traditional society
- 2⇔preconditions to take-off
- 3⇔take-off
- 4⇔drive to maturity
- 5⇔age of mass consumption
- Which of the following is not one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that relate to the protection of the environment?
- Affordable and clean energy
- Climate action
- Gender equality ✓
- Responsible consumption and production
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Key learning points
- Quality of life has multiple aspects, some of which are subjective such as life satisfaction.
- Development is a contested term often linked to a limited (Eurocentric), outdated view of economic progress.
- Its definition has broadened over time to include human welfare, social and environmental justice.
- The process of development is neither inevitable nor apolitical.
Common misconception
That a single image can help us to understand how quality of life is different in distant places.
While images can be of use they can not depict all aspects of life, moreover each image can only ever show a single place or group of people. Within any country there is a diversity of lived experience.
Keywords
Quality of life - for individuals or the community, a measure of social and economic well-being
Built environment - the parts of places in which we live that have been built by people, rather than exist in nature
Life satisfaction - a subjective measure of happiness used to compare countries
Development - the progress of a country in terms of wealth, use of technology and human welfare
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