It is now widely accepted that one must move beyond viewing GDP as the critical measure of a nation's progress and recognise it for what it is - a measure of economic exchange, which is itself a means to an end; the 'end' being the achievement of 'sustainable well-being'. In this paper, the authors focus on ways of measuring environmental sustainability and well-being, as well as offering a view from the global South which entails measures of both of these.

*This paper was originally published in ''The Global Transition 2012: Earth Summit Rio June 2012'' and is available at http://globaltransition2012.org/beyond-gdp/

February 24, 2012.