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 ====== Wellbeing ====== ====== Wellbeing ======
  
-[[resilience|]]+<WRAP meta> 
 +lead-authors: [Name] 
 +contributors: [Names] 
 +reviewers: [Names] 
 +version: 0.3 
 +updated: 25 March 2026 
 +sensitivity: low 
 +status: draft 
 +ai-use: 
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 +This topic is part of the ISGAN Wiki and is currently being developed. You can contribute directly by clicking the edit button, or use the [[about:newtopic|Topic Builder]] for guided input. A confirmed wiki account is required. Register and allow up to three days for admin confirmation. Before contributing, read the [[about:guidelines|Editorial Guidelines]]. 
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 +===== Why this matters ===== 
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 +[To be drafted] 
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 +===== Shared definitions ===== 
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 +Societal wellbeing depends on the individual wellbeing of all society members and on the structure of the society — the links among individuals and their social connections. Within economics, individual utility is typically interpreted through traditional products, services, and leisure time, but can be read more broadly to include social engagement, sense of belonging to a community, and social trust — dimensions that go beyond individual utility and connect to the structure of society itself.((European Commission, Joint Research Centre. (2017). //Building a scientific narrative towards a more resilient EU society. Part 1: A conceptual framework//. Publications Office of the European Union.)) 
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 +===== Perspectives ===== 
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 +==== Actors and stakeholders ==== 
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 +==== Technologies and infrastructure ==== 
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 +==== Institutional structures ==== 
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 +===== Distinctions and overlaps ===== 
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 +===== Related topics =====
  
-===== Societal wellbeing [EC JRC, 2017]=====+[[topics:resilience|Resilience]] · [[topics:users_citizens_consumers|Users, citizens, consumers]] · [[topics:service|Service]] · [[topics:commons|Commons]]
  
-"Societal wellbeing (social welfare), broadly speaking, depends on the individual wellbeing (utility) of all society members (the individualistic part), and on society’s structure (the links among individuals, i.e. the social connections). Utility in general depends on physical and abstract objects (“goods”) the individual gets or is exposed to. Within economics, the interpretation of goods is typically restricted to traditional products, services and leisure time, but it can be interpreted more broadly. This aggregation from individual wellbeing to social welfare can be done by social welfare functions, or by using less structural approaches (like social multi-criteria evaluation, see Munda (2008)). Yet, individual wellbeing also has a subjective component. Many of these ingredients (like social engagement, sense of belonging to a community, and social trust) go beyond individual wellbeing, and have a strong link with the structure of the society. This is what we will label as [[resilience|socio-system services]] later."+===== Topic notes =====
  
-[Source: European Commission. Joint Research Centre., 2017. Building a scientific narrative towards a more resilient EU society. Part 1, A conceptual framework. Publications Office, LU.]+  * Two pages flagged for potential merge into this topic: public service; energy as a service of public interest. Review whether this content belongs here or in [[topics:service|Service]]. 
 +  * The cross-reference to socio-system services in the source material links wellbeing to resilience — worth developing as a distinction or overlap entry. 
 +  * The EC JRC (2017) framework distinguishes individual utility from social welfare functions and from less structural approaches (social multi-criteria evaluation). This three-way distinction may be worth preserving in Shared definitions.
  
 +This draft has one sourced definition but needs full development. If you have relevant expertise, contribute directly via the edit button or the [[about:newtopic|Topic Builder]]. Read the [[about:guidelines|Editorial Guidelines]] before contributing.
  
 +~~DISCUSSION~~