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  title info:
    title: Measuring wellbeing
    sub title: towards sustainability?
  name:
    name part: Scott, Karen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions between various constructs of wellbeing and sustainable development, and between current individual and societal notions of wellbeing. Recommending a clearer conceptual framework for policy makers regarding different wellbeing constructs which would facilitate more transparent discussions, it argues against a win-win scenario of wellbeing and sustainability but advocates a power sensitive trade off approach based on debating values. Measuring Wellbeing is divided into two clear 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 'happiness'. This book will help shape debates in newly developing wellbeing policy arenas. Through a consideration of discourse, politics and power, it addresses the disciplinary gaps in current wellbeing policy debate. This accessible and informative book will appeal to students, academics and policy makers interested in wellbeing, sustainable development, indicators, public policy, participation, localism, community, power and discourse.
  note: Karen Scott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Well-being
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Social indicators
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  classification: HN25 .S384 2012
  classification: 306
  identifier: 9781849714624 (hardback)
  identifier: 1849714622 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781849714631 (pbk)
  identifier: 1849714630 (pbk)
  identifier: 9780203113622 (ebk)
  identifier: 0203113624 (ebk)
  identifier: 2012001471
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120124
    record change date: 20150922105642.0
    record identifier: in00002770940