Living Well in the Constitution of Bolivia and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Reflections on Well-Being and the Right to Development Añaños Bedriñana, Karen Giovanna Hernández Umaña, Bernardo Alfredo Rodríguez Martín, José Antonio American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Bolivia Development Indigenous peoples Living well Mother Earth Well-being B.A. Hernández Umaña, the coauthor of the article, gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the following institutions: the University Santo Tomas – Colombia (Project reference 1811502-006-28022018). J.A. Rodríguez Martín, the corresponding author of the article, gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the following institutions: The Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness of Spain; the State Research Agency (SRA); and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (project reference ECO2017-86822-R). The article analyzes how approaches to “Living Well” as reflected in the Constitution of the State of Bolivia, the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Organization of American States (OAS) contribute to understanding the Andean cosmovision of indigenous peoples of the American continent. To do so, it first studied the most immediate precedents that led to incorporation of the notion of Living Well into Bolivian law. Second, it approached the right to development from the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which has as its source the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The paper thus proposes reflections on the Bolivian State and the American Declaration that advance understanding of Living Well, a notion comparable in the West to the right to development (political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural) that enables the individual and collective realization of the individual. Fullness, understood in terms of well-being, is related to the protection of health and of the environment. Finally, the paper employs a qualitative methodology with a well-documented hermeneutic focus, as well as the tool of a semi-structured interview with a Bolivian scholar familiar on the topic. 2020-06-22T12:07:06Z 2020-06-22T12:07:06Z 2020-04 journal article Añaños Bedriñana, K. G., Hernández Umaña, B. A., & Rodríguez Martín, J. A. (2020). “Living Well” in the Constitution of Bolivia and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Reflections on Well-Being and the Right to Development. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(8), 2870. [doi:10.3390/ijerph17082870] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62616 10.3390/ijerph17082870 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España MDPI