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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.