A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH OF THE EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING IN ITALY

The equitable and sustainable territorial well-being is an increasingly important field of study and at the level of each country and globally. The objective of our paper is to analyze the quality of life indicators, consistent with national and international theoretical framework useful to capture the local specificity, preparing a solid information base for planning and reporting on activities of the Institutions and administration of broad area. So far, different projects aimed to measure equitable and sustainable well-being and at evaluating the progress of society not only from an economic, but also from a social and environmental point of view. In this paper, we adopted the criteria of logical-conceptual choice (theory driven) for the selection of key indicators, representative of the Italian economy. This choice is a useful and important output to evaluate the action of the Government in the political choices for the well-being of citizens. However, there is a risk regarding analyzes results which can be overturned from one year to the next and thus be misleading when making territorial comparisons. Knowledge of structured data on the system of constraints, the resources and the potential of a region is still essential to territorial governance and its institutional setup.