The Microeconomics Of Wellbeing And Sustainability

Author : Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Medical economics
ISBN : 9780128160275

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The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability by Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni Pdf

The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative-not heterodox-view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges. Marries criticism of the neo-classical model with empirical work on the possibilities of alternative frameworks for action Links new ideas (homo reciprocans, happiness, relational goods) to established microeconomic concepts (the market, perfect and imperfect competition, utility maximization) Devotes specific attention to relevant elements in economic history, explaining how we evolved to the current paradigm and to its challenge

Author : Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128162927

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The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability by Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni Pdf

The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative—not heterodox—view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges. Marries criticism of the neo-classical model with empirical work on the possibilities of alternative frameworks for action Links new ideas (homo reciprocans, happiness, relational goods) to established microeconomic concepts (the market, perfect and imperfect competition, utility maximization) Devotes specific attention to relevant elements in economic history, explaining how we evolved to the current paradigm and to its challenge

Author : Robert Costanza,Jon D. Erickson,Joshua Farley,Ida Kubiszewski
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789900958

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Sustainable Wellbeing Futures by Robert Costanza,Jon D. Erickson,Joshua Farley,Ida Kubiszewski Pdf

Ecological economics can help create the future that most people want – a future that is prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. This forward-thinking book lays out an alternative approach that places the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal. Each of the book’s chapters, written by a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners, outlines a research and action agenda for how this future can look and possible actions for its realisation.

Author : Peter L.P. Bartelmus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351140591

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Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing by Peter L.P. Bartelmus Pdf

This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development. The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and indices in decision and policy making. It describes what the data tell us about the effects of economic activity on the quality of life and prosperity of people and nations, now and in the future, and highlights how a reliance on partial and distorted information can thwart rational policies. It also examines whether less tangible notions of wellbeing and happiness lend themselves to quantification and prediction. Overall, Bartelmus demonstrates the need for integrated accounting and analysis to revise policy priorities around environmental, social, economic and sustainability concerns. Confronting the persisting polarization of environmentalists and economists, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental and ecological economics, sustainability indicators and their use in integrative policy.

Author : Milena Büchs,Max Koch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319599038

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Postgrowth and Wellbeing by Milena Büchs,Max Koch Pdf

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth. This thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to debates surrounding climate change, sustainability, welfare states and inequality and will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics, political ecology and human geography.

Author : Mònica Guillen-Royo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317647270

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Sustainability and Wellbeing by Mònica Guillen-Royo Pdf

The idea that we can meet human needs and simultaneously conserve and even enhance the natural environment is an attractive one. Since the Brundtland report popularised a definition of sustainable development based on the concept of needs, there has been a widespread belief that it should be possible to achieve a good quality of life without compromising natural ecosystems. Sustainability and Wellbeing fills a gap in sustainable development studies by drawing on a range of case-studies to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development (HSD) framework in practice. The first section presents the theory and the methodology of HSD in the context of related literature on sustainable development and wellbeing. The second section discusses applications of the HSD methodology with three different purposes: the design of sustainable development interventions; the engagement of researchers with communities or groups of people in sustainability processes and the consolidation of sustainable community initiatives. Finally, the third reflects on challenges and limitations of using the HSD approach to define strategies for sustainable development and concludes. This is an invaluable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in wellbeing, sustainability, sustainable development, and human development.

Author : Karen Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849714631

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Measuring Wellbeing by Karen Scott Pdf

This book offers new insights into the relationship between wellbeing and sustainable development through a focus on local indicators

Author : Thomas S. J. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319940786

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Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn by Thomas S. J. Smith Pdf

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and quantification to an unprecedented extent. As such, the book argues that our ways of measuring both the environment, such as through sustainability metrics like footprints and Payments for Ecosystem Services, and society, through gross domestic product and wellbeing measures, play a constitutive and problematic role in how we conceive of ourselves in the world. Subsequently, as the quantified environmental approach drives a dualistic wedge between the human and non-human realms, in its final section the book puts forward recent developments in new materialism and feminist ethics of care as providing practical ways of re-founding sustainable development in a way that firmly acknowledges human-ecological relations. This book will be an invaluable reference for scholars and students in the fields of human geography, political ecology, and environmental sociology.

Author : Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders,Joe Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319931944

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Wellbeing Economics by Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders,Joe Saunders Pdf

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found. This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the capabilities approach of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, the book demonstrates how persons can enhance prosperity through their own actions and through collaboration with others. The book examines national public policy, but its analysis also focuses on choices made by individuals, households, families, civil society, local government and the global community. It therefore offers important insights for anyone concerned with improving personal wellbeing and community prosperity.

Author : Mark Anielski
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771422611

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An Economy of Well-Being by Mark Anielski Pdf

Help build a world based on flourishing well-being for both the human family and nature In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics? In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical guide for building a new economy of well-being to help communities and nations become more flourishing and happier places to live. In this follow-up to his best-selling The Economics of Happiness, Anielski addresses key questions including: How can our personal and family assets be strengthened for a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose? How can neighborhoods and cities become flourishing economies of well-being by making the best of abundant community assets? how can organizations, communities and financial institutions measure, manage and finance assets to achieve high levels of well-being? An Economy of Well-being responds to a common yearning for common-sense tools to orient our lives, our businesses, and our communities towards well-being. This is ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning.

Author : Ercan Özen,Simon Grima,Rebecca Dalli Gonzi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800439689

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New Challenges for Future Sustainability and Wellbeing by Ercan Özen,Simon Grima,Rebecca Dalli Gonzi Pdf

New Challenges for Future Sustainability and Wellbeing is a collection of studies about sustainability and related challenges, such as income, wealth, the environment, education and regional equality that influence the pace of economic development and affects the well-being of people and organisations all over the world.

Author : A. Bandarage
Publisher : Springer
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137308993

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Sustainability and Well-Being by A. Bandarage Pdf

Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation. She presents an incisive social science analysis and an alternative philosophical perspective on the needed transition from a worldview of domination to one of partnership.

Author : Giles Atkinson,Samuel Fankhauser
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1786439107

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Sustainability Economics by Giles Atkinson,Samuel Fankhauser Pdf

The unprecedented advances in economic development witnessed over the past decades cannot continue if economic progress comes at the expense of the natural environment. The Sustainable Development Goals, agreed globally in 2015, define a vision of human development where economic, social and environmental domains interact to shape the prospects for future prosperity. This timely collection highlights the contribution of economics to the study of sustainable development. It brings together in one volume some of the most influential articles on the topic by economists over the past fifty years. Environmental sustainability, an inherently interdisciplinary topic, is analysed from the perspectives of applied microeconomics, environmental and resource economics, ecological economics, development economics and public economics. Together with an original introduction by the editors, this volume is indispensable for anyone interested or working in the field.

Author : Nicky Pouw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463723854

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Wellbeing Economics by Nicky Pouw Pdf

Author : Erick Valdés,Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000474190

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Biolaw, Economics and Sustainable Governance by Erick Valdés,Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Pdf

This book offers an accurate and updated approach to the main contributions of cosmopolitan biolaw in relation to sustainability, global governance, organizational health care economics and COVID-19. Bringing together different robust and dense biojuridical epistemologies to analyze key bioethical problems as well as the health care, management, economics and sustainability issues of our time, it constitutes a paradigmatic text in its field. In addition to exploring different epistemologies and jurisdictional scopes of biolaw, including the relationships between this new field and the challenges which have arisen in the current globalized and technologized world, the book addresses controversial issues straight from today’s headlines: for example, the basics for health care, finance and organizational economics, global biojuridical principles for governance, globalization, bioscientific empowerment, global and existential risk and sustainability challenges for a post-pandemic world. The book encourages readers to think impartially in order to know and understand the bioethical and biojuridical dilemmas that stem from current economics and sustainability issues. Accordingly, it will be a valuable resource for courses in the fields of biolaw, law, bioethics, global sustainability, organizational health care economics and global governance at different professional levels.