Wellbeing and Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Evidence for Action
Redaktion: Briguglio, Marie; Laffan, Kate; Czap, Natalia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As wellbeing becomes an increasingly explicit policy goal in countries across the world, the demand for evidence upon which to base intervention is growing. Featuring 41 contributing authors from 18 countries, this book surveys and synthesizes recent developments in wellbeing science and policy to highlight key lessons learned and to offer actionable insights for policy-making.

Opening with a foreword by Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, and an introductory chapter surveying the fundamentals of wellbeing policy, the book reviews the links between wellbeing and various domains, including income, work, health, family, altruism and empathy, ageing, gender, education, housing, environment, crime, democracy, migration, religion, digital technology, and art, culture, and creativity. The book also examines the state of the art on wellbeing policy frameworks in diverse contexts, including developed and developing countries, small and large states, across the world, documenting interventions by governmental, private, or non-governmental organizations. Case studies include Bhutan, New Zealand, Finland, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Malta.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in progressing towards a wellbeing economy including policy-makers, academics, and students in economics, public policy, public administration, and behavioural and political science.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040369326
• Artikelnr.: 73959962

Autorenporträt

Marie Briguglio is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Malta. She has served as Principal Investigator on several EU-funded and collaborative public-sector research projects in the fields of wellbeing, environmental and behavioural economics. She is also an award-winning multi-media writer. Natalia V. Czap is Professor of Economics and the Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at University of Michigan-Dearborn, the United States. Her research interests include behavioural and experimental economics, behavioural public policy, and wellbeing policy. Kate Laffan is Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at the Department for Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She researches the reciprocal relationship between human wellbeing and behaviour and works on the application of behavioural science to policy challenges.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Overview of Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action Part I.
Wellbeing: Evidence across Domains 2. Income and Wellbeing 3. Work and
Wellbeing: Maximising the Wellbeing of Tomorrow's Workforce 4. Health and
Wellbeing: Identifying Causal Effects 5. Family and Wellbeing: The Emerging
Importance of Family Wellbeing Studies for Social Policies and Services 6.
Altruism, Empathy & Wellbeing: Improving Lives Through Policy That Aligns
with our Better Angels 7. Ageing and Wellbeing: The Potential of Senior
Policy to Support Seniors' Subjective Wellbeing 8. Gender and Wellbeing:
Key States of the Life Course 9. Education and Wellbeing 10. Housing,
Neighbourhoods, and Wellbeing 11. Environment and Wellbeing: Assessing the
Impact of Environmental Quality and Pro-environmental Behavior on Wellbeing
12. (Fear of) Crime and Wellbeing: The Role of Individual and Country-level
Determinants 13. Democracy and Wellbeing 14. Migration and Wellbeing: A
Policy Review 15. Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: Can
Spiritual/Religious Practice Improve Individuals' Wellbeing? 16. Digital
Technology and Wellbeing: Moving beyond the Hype 17. Art, Culture, and
Wellbeing: Reaping the Rewards of Creativity Part II. Wellbeing: Evidence
from Countries 18. Wellbeing and Policy in Bhutan 19. Wellbeing and Policy
in New Zealand: From a Wellbeing Framework to a Government-Wide Approach
20. Wellbeing and Policy in Finland: The Economy of Wellbeing Approach 21.
Wellbeing Policy in the UAE: Strategic Directions and Lessons Learned 22.
Wellbeing and Policy in Canada: Progress towards Measurement and Practice
23. Wellbeing and Policy in Australia 24. Wellbeing and Policy in the UK
25. Wellbeing and Policy in Japan 26. Wellbeing and Policy in Malta: Doing
well. Feeling good? Appendix Index