Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

by Karen Scott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849714622
• ISBN13: 9781849714624
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"