If there is one lesson that the COVID pandemic has left us it is the importance, if not the urgency, of making our territories resilient. But what is the state of health of the regions in Europe? We get the picture from an ESPON study programme survey devoted to the quality of life in the Old World.

In particular, the researchers tried to gauge the territorial quality of life (TQoL), or "the capacity of human beings to survive and develop in a determined place", thanks to the social, economic and ecological conditions that characterise them.