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Measuring wellbeing : towards sustainability? /
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 sust...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; PART I Reviewing wellbeing concepts and measurement; 1 Introduction: the death of economics and the rise of wellbeing; 2 Human wellbeing and quality of life; 3 Sustainable wellbeing: an oxymoron?; 4 Leave it to the people? Power and participation; 5 The role of indicators: knowledge, rationality and public policy; PART II Measuring wellbeing in practice; 6 Case study of Blyth Valley Borough Council: background and context; 7 Defining 'local' wellbeing: discourse and debate. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 8 Developing a wellbeing framework9 Moving towards measurement?; 10 Towards sustainability: developing a common sense of wellbeing; Appendix A: Audit Commission list of local quality of life indicators 2005; Appendix B: Martha Nussbaum's set of central human capabilities; Appendix C: Mapping exercise; Notes; References and further reading; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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 wellbe. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Sustainable development. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human comfort. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bien-être. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Qualité de la vie. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Indicateurs sociaux. | |
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