Abstract

Someone may find it surprising or even incredible, but in Italy, not only landscape is officially recognized as an essential component of well-being, but it is also statistically measured in order to assess its transformations over time and to compare trends between regions. In this article, after briefly recalling other systems of indicators of well-being and having shortly reported if and how they include landscape, it is described the variables chosen in the BES system – Measures of fair and sustainable well-being and their trends, also with reference to territorial differences.