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Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability? - Towards sustainability? (Hardcover)
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Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability? - Towards sustainability? (Hardcover)
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Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of
government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book
reviews that question and its implications for public policy
through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one
hand between various constructs of wellbeing and sustainable
development, and on the other between current individual and
societal notions of wellbeing. It recommends a clearer conceptual
framework for policy makers regarding different wellbeing
constructs which would facilitate more transparent discussions.
Arguing against a win-win scenario of wellbeing and sustainability,
it advocates an approach based on recognising and valuing
conflicting views where notions of participation and power are
central to discussions. Measuring Wellbeing is divided into two
parts. The first part provides a critical review of the field,
drawing widely on international research but contextualised within
recent UK wellbeing policy discourses. The second part embeds the
theory in a case study based on the author's own experience of
trying to develop quality of life indicators within a local
authority, against the backdrop of increasing national policy
interest in measuring 'happiness'. This accessible and informative
book, covering uniquely both practice and theory, will be of great
appeal to students, academics and policy makers interested in
wellbeing, sustainable development, indicators, public policy,
community participation, power and discourse.
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