Happiness, well-being and sustainability a course in systems change
"Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change is the first textbook bridging the gap between personal happiness and sustainable social change. The book provides a guide for students to increase their skills, literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of wel...
| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020.
2021. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762683806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the authors
- List of figures and tables
- List of text boxes
- About the contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Systems
- Introduction to systems
- Systems and elements
- Highlight: urban or rural planning
- Interdependence
- Highlight: exploring interdependence
- Feedback loops
- Guest coursebook contribution from Kate Pickett
- Highlight: a short history of GDP as a measurement to guide nations
- Highlight: money, income and happiness: the Easterlin paradox
- Highlight: why certain nations are happier
- Highlight: why some poor nations are happier than you would expect
- Leverage points
- Highlight: beekeeping as a leverage point for sustainability and prosperity
- Entry points for systems change
- Change agents
- Highlight: different approaches to change agentry
- Guest coursebook contribution from Lester Kurtz
- 2 Values
- Introduction to values: setting the stage for a thought experiment
- The value of values
- Guest coursebook contribution from Tom Crompton
- What are values?
- What are your values?
- Highlight: exploring the origin of personal values
- Ten common values
- Exploring conflicting values
- Highlight: conflicting values and tragedy
- Two stories
- Wealth, appearance and status values story
- Care and community values story
- The dilemma of societal values and happiness
- Can values change?
- Highlight: exploring biases
- Highlight: a few ingredients for happiness at work
- Revising our thought experiment
- 3 Measuring Happiness
- Why measure happiness
- Highlight: different ways nations measure happiness, well-being and sustainability
- Highlight: change agency and measuring happiness
- Highlight: teaching sustainability
- Connecting happiness, well-being and sustainability through measurements.
- How is sustainability measured?
- Measuring happiness subjectively
- Using satisfaction with life data
- Highlight: choices and satisfaction with life
- Highlight: happy jobs
- Using data about how you feel
- Guest coursebook contribution from John C. Havens
- Guest coursebook contribution from Marek Havrda
- Using eudaimonia, flourishing and other data for a good life
- Highlight: four kinds of happiness-hedonism, eudaimonia, flow and chaironic happiness
- Roles for measurements in system
- 4 Individual Happiness
- Individual happiness introduction
- Highlight: why not be happy?
- Highlight: the doctor bliss doctrine
- The science behind mindfulness
- Mindfulness as a theory of positive change
- Four ways to practice mindfulness
- A few last words on mindfulness
- The science behind gratitude
- Reflective gratitude practices
- Expressive gratitude practices
- A few last words on gratitude
- The science behind generosity
- Generosity practices
- A few final words on generosity
- Communication
- Active listening
- Speaking
- Benefits of individual happiness skills checklist
- 5 Needs
- Needs identified
- Not meeting needs: the rich-poor gap
- Highlight: sustainable development
- Highlight: can needs be sustainably met?
- Inequality, misery and happiness
- Highlight: HALT
- Needs and sustainability
- Highlight: a backpacker's theory of life
- Our needs theory
- 6 Sustainability
- Defining sustainability
- Highlight: sustainable and happy communities
- Highlight: beauty, happiness, well-being and sustainability
- Global problems and solutions
- Climate change
- Human population and our ecological footprint
- Guest coursebook contribution from Beth Allgood
- Highlight: will technology save us?
- Highlight: universal basic income
- Sustainable business
- Highlight: the circular economy.
- Highlight: externalities
- Connecting sustainability and happiness
- 7 Policy
- Defining policy
- Happiness, well-being and sustainability policies
- Organizational changes for happiness, well-being and sustainability policy
- Highlight: three factors for happiness and well-being in cities
- How to engage in policy making
- Guest coursebook contribution from Jean Crowder
- Closing: your future, our future
- Index.
