61.2 The guiding question
7211.1 Beyond technocratic consultation
71.3 The structure of the argument
7311.2 Legitimate coexistence of all those affected
82.1 Foundational principles: peace, human rights, and respect for the planet
74Legitimate coexistence therefore asks:
92.2 Current well-being: the widening of lived experience
7511.5 The sequence of the life-coherent conversation
102.3 Equity and inclusion: from averages to unequal burdens
7611.6 A new civilizational utterance
112.4 Sustainability and resilience: capital, future well-being, and the problem of substitution
77Part XII — Applications: Applying Life-Coherent Progress Across Policy Domains
122.5 The strength of the dashboard approach
7812.1 National development planning
132.6 The limitation of dashboard thinking
7912.2 Public health and health systems
14Part III — The Missing Depth: From Measurement to Life- Value
8012.3 Climate and planetary health
153.1 The hidden ontology of progress
8112.4 Economic policy
163.3 Life-capacity as the real measure of progress
8212.5 Education
173.4 Universal human life necessities
8312.6 Technology and digital systems
183.5 Why this deepens Beyond GDP
8412.7 Work and livelihoods
19Part IV — Life Capital: Deepening the Five-Capitals Framework
8512.8 Small Island Developing States and the Caribbean
204.2 The danger of capital neutrality
8612.9 Application as life-coherent redesign
214.3 McMurtry’s life capital
87Part XIII — Research and Measurement Agenda: Building a Life-Coherent Evidence Base
224.4 True capital and life-incoherent capital
8813.1 Indicator refinement
234.6 Human capital through the life-capital test
8913.2 Participatory measurement
244.7 Social capital through the life-capital test
9013.3 Mixed-methods evidence
254.8 Institutional capital through the life-capital test
9113.4 Disaggregation and intersectionality
264.9 Natural capital, life-ground, and non-substitutability
9213.5 Longitudinal and intergenerational measurement
274.10 The life-capital audit
9313.6 Early warning signals
28Part V — Life-Coherent Efficiency: From Output Productivity to Life-Good Provisioning
9413.7 Life-incoherent capital detection
295.1 The conventional meaning of efficiency
9513.8 Life-coherent policy evaluation
305.2 False efficiency and burden displacement
9613.9 Research governance and institutional capacity
31A life-coherent efficiency test therefore asks:
9713.10 A living evidence system
325.3 Three domains of life-coherent efficiency
9814.4 The danger of performative transformation
335.4 Ecological efficiency
9914.5 The promise of life-coherent progress
345.5 Physical input-output efficiency
10015.1 Reframing progress
355.6 Human development efficiency
10115.2 Reframing wealth
366.3 Structural violence as life-capacity reduction
10215.4 Reframing efficiency
376.4 Cultural violence and the legitimation of harm
10315.6 Final synthesis
386.6 Toward life-coherent peace indicators
104Back Matter
39Part VII — Relational Biology and the Worlds Measurement Brings Forth
105B.2 Seven Audit Tests
407.3 The emotional ground of rational systems
106B.3 Capital-Specific Audit Questions
417.4 Organism–niche relations
107Interpretation
427.5 Legitimate coexistence
108Core Question
43Legitimate coexistence therefore asks:
109Purpose
447.7 The relational upgrade to Beyond GDP
110C.2 The Three Domains of Life-Coherent Efficiency
45Part VIII — The Life-Coherent Framework for Progress
111C.3 Efficiency Audit Questions
468.1 The life-master question
112I. Human Development
478.3 From health systems to life systems
113Commons efficiency Burden efficiency
488.4 Exposure, repair, and margins
114C.7 Policy Use
498.5 Exposure burden
115Purpose
508.6 Repair capacity
116D.6 Ecological Peace Indicators
518.7 Margins and buffers
117D.7 Commercial Determinants of Peace and Harm
52Part IX — From Dashboard to Life-System Diagnostic
118D.14 Closing Principle
539.2 The life-value foundation layer
119Purpose
549.3 The planetary boundary layer
120E.2 The Ten Life-Coherence Tests
559.4 The life capital layer
121Look for: thresholds, minimum standards, floors, adequacy, sufficiency, and secure access.
569.5 The civil commons layer
122E.3 Indicator Interpretation Template
579.6 The margins and repair layer
123Indicator Name
589.7 The positive peace layer
124Life-capacity relevance
599.8 The capture and burden-displacement audit
125Example 4: Biodiversity Intactness
609.9 The life-coherence test for every indicator
126Purpose
61Part X — The Life-Coherent Action Method: From Measurement to Transformation
127F.1 The Full Cycle
6210.2 Recognize
128Back Cover Synopsis
6310.3 Rename
129References and Further Reading
6410.4 Measure
130Galtung, J. (1990). Cultural violence. Journal of Peace Research, 27(3), 291–305.
6510.5 Expose
131McMurtry, J. (1999). The cancer stage of capitalism. Pluto Press.
6610.6 De-implement
132United Nations. (2024). Pact for the Future. United Nations.
