Handbook of Community Well Being Research 1st Edition by Rhonda Phillips, Cecilia Wong ISBN 9402408762 978-9402408768

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ISBN 10: 9402408762 

ISBN 13: 978-9402408768

Author: Rhonda Phillips, Cecilia Wong

 This Handbook brings together foundational and leading-edge research exploring dimensions of improving quality of life in communities of place. Social indicators and other assessment techniques will be explored, including from the framework of community perspectives which is concerned with enhancing quality of life for community members. As part of this trans-disciplinary work, participation, engagement, and empowerment will be key concepts presented. Along with capacity building and service provision, these elements influence community well-being and will be considered along with subjective and objective assessment approaches. Researchers from around the globe share their work on this important topic of community well-being, bringing together a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Those working in the areas of public policy, community development, community and social psychology, urban and regional planning, and sustainable development will find this volume particularly usefulfor the array of approaches presented.

Table of contents: 

1. Community Functioning That Fosters Sustainable Social Well-Being

2. Punk Rock Wisdom: An Emancipative Psychological Social Capital Approach to Community Well-Being

3. The ART of Hope: Healing the Wounded City

4. Multi-dimensional Model of Community Well-Being from a Public Service Delivery Perspective

5. Happiness: An Alternative Objective for Sustainable Community Development

6. Debriefs as Process Evaluation for Community Well-Being: Community-based Participatory Research with Métis Settlements in Alberta, Canada

7. Achieving Community Well-Being Through Community Participatory Governance: The Case of Saemaul Undong

8. A Citizen-Led Approach to Enhancing Community Well-Being

9. Community Well-Being and Information Technology

10. Festivity, Play, Well-Being … Historical and Rhetorical Relationships: Implications for Communities

11. What We Can Learn from America’s Highest Well-Being Communities

12. Public Health and Urban Planning: Challenging Options for Well-Being: Experiences from Germany

13. Community-Driven Health Impact Assessment and Asset-Based Community Development: An Innovate Path to Community Well-Being

14. The Human Development Approach: Stimulating a Fact-Based Conversation About Improving the Human Condition in Sonoma County, California

15. Community Capacity in End of Life Care: Can a Community Development Model Address Suffering and Enhance Well-Being?

16. From National to Local: Measuring Well-Being at the Community Level

17. Building Well-Being: Neighbourhood Flourishing and Approaches for Participatory Urban Design Intervention

18. Stakeholder Preferences on a Working Waterfront: Quality of Life, Land Uses and Planning Processes in Chelsea, Massachusetts

19. LISADEMAS: A Life Satisfaction Decision-Making System for Integrated Community Development Planning

20. A Geographic and Mixed Methods Approach to Capture Unequal Quality-of-Life Conditions

21. Distinguishing Flourishing from Distressed Communities: Vulnerability, Resilience and a Systemic Framework to Facilitate Well-Being

22. Measuring Community Well-Being and Individual Well-Being for Public Policy: The Case of the Community Well-Being Atlas

23. Delivering Community Well-Being from the Happy City Concept: A Practical Approach to Urban Planning and Design

24. The Role of Community-Based Organizations: The Case of the Saemaul Undong Women’s Club

25. Rural Poverty and Well-Being: Material and Sociocultural Disconnections

26. The Role of Spirituality in Building Capacity for Women’s Leadership in Crisis Conditions: A Community Level Analysis of Burma

27. The Decisive Contribution of Youth to Community Well-Being

28. Community Well-Being and National Well-Being: The Opinion of Young People

29. Understanding the Impact of Alberta’s Early Child Development Community Coalitions on Community Well-Being

30. The Green Machine Mobile Market: An Innovative Response to Food Insecurity in the Bluff City

31. Can Living Wage Be a Win-Win Policy? A Study of Living Wage Effects on Employer and Employee Performance in Hamilton, Canada

32. Erratum: LISADEMAS: A Life Satisfaction Decision-Making System for Integrated Community Development Planning

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