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1. Defend that the main objective of Social Sciences is to improve the living standards of population.
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2. Believe that economic growth is just one of the tools available to society to achieve that objective, despite its variable efficacy over time.
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3. Focus on the biological and material conditions of life, and acknowledge its multidimensionality, that is, the economic, institutional, scientific and environmental circumstances, that have conditioned its evolution.
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B. Promote the elaboration of:
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New indicators that account for the evolution of living standards of the population , and new tools to assess the improvement or deterioration over time and space, based on the following methodologies: Land-time Budget Analysis, Multi-scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism and Multi-criteria Analysis.
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C. Provide researchers with access to:
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Information as well as promoting their participation in the development of this resource.
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