A synthetic indicator bes-sdgs to describe italian well-being

The indicators of well-being, environmental sustainability, social quality and gender equality are essential tools for the development, adoption and evaluation of public policies to improve the well-being conditions of Italy and the world as a whole. They do not only represent a technical-scientific need (to measure well-being in a complete way in order to obtain a more exhaustive and in-depth picture of the material and social conditions of the population), but must constitute a theoretical, but also operational, tool for public policies, to direct them to the aims of the well-being of society. Starting from 2016, the indicators on fair and sustainable well-being (BES) are connected to the indicators for monitoring the objectives of the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development that is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), chosen by the global community, to represent own values, priorities and goals. This work aims to provide an overview, as complete as possible, of the regional BES through the union of the BES and SDGs indicators and a synthetic indicator of well-being and sustainability of the Italian regions to identify local best practices in relation to specific profiles of the BES and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development.