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Wellbeing and Place by Painter, Joe; Fuller, Sara; Atkinson, Sarah is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wellbeing and Place about?

The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term 'wellbeing'. Nonetheless, the concept of wellbeing is itself ill-defined, a term used in multiple different contexts with different meanings and policy implications. Bringing together a range of perspectives, this volume examines the intersections of wellbeing and place, including immediate applied policy concerns as well as more critical academic engagements. Conceptualisations of place, context and settings have come under critical examination, and more nuanced and varied understandings are drawn out from both academic and policy-related research. Whilst quantitative and some policy approaches treat place as a static backdrop or context, others explore the interrelationships of emotional, social, cultural and experiential meanings that are both shape place and are shaped in place. Similarly, wellbeing may be understood as a relatively stable and measurable entity or as a more situation-dependent and relational effect. The book is structured into two sections: essays that explore the dyn

Who reads Wellbeing and Place?

Author

Painter, Joe; Fuller, Sara; Atkinson, Sarah

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280677755

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Anthropology, Social Science