The book offers critical discussion, constructive insights and informed guidance for future research and applied work that can move us closer towards a sustainable society. This is the first comprehensive edited book linking sustainability and happiness. By doing so, it frames modern society’s pursuit of happiness as the ultimate wicked problem challenging sustainable life on earth. Chapters in the book focus on topics such as food systems, neighbourhood developments, project facilitated gathering and dialogue, beauty, and the happiness movement as an alternative to GDP. This book is of great importance to both academics and practitioners working at the intersection of sustainability and happiness.
Author(s): Scott Cloutier, Sara El-Sayed, Allison Ross , Melanie Weaver
Series: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 212
City: Cham
Contents
1 Introduction to Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
1.1 An Honoring
1.2 What is Sustainability?
1.3 What is Happiness?
1.4 Sustainability and Happiness Linked
1.4.1 Volume Contributions
References
2 Achieving Community Happiness and Well-Being Through Community Productivity
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methods
2.3 From Community Sustainability to Community Productivity
2.4 Happiness and Well-Being in a Productive Community
2.4.1 The Interdisciplinary Concept of Community Productivity
2.4.2 Evaluating Well-Being in a Productive Community
2.5 Discussion
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 Sustainability and Happiness as “Promoting Life”
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methodology
3.3 Conceptual Review
3.3.1 Well-Being
3.3.2 Happiness
3.3.3 Integration of Ethics and Others
3.3.4 Sustainability
3.3.5 Integration of Sustainability
3.3.6 Proposing a Thought Experiment
3.4 A (Train of) Thought Experiment(s)
3.4.1 Searching for the Meaning of Life
3.4.2 Meaning and Sustainability
3.4.3 The Value of Life
3.4.4 Meaning and Value
3.5 Results
3.6 Discussion
3.7 Conclusion
References
4 Buddhist Sustainable Development: Inner Happiness as a Direction for Sustainable Development
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Background and Explanation of the BSD Concept
4.3 Happiness in Buddhism and Buddhist Sustainable Development Concept
4.4 A Review Discussion of BSD Compared with Other Related Concepts
4.5 BSD and Implications to Sustainable Development
4.6 Looking Forward
References
5 Mahatma Gandhi’s Sarvodaya (Welfare for All) as a Way to End Violence and Achieve Happy, Sustainable Societies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methods
5.3 Results
5.3.1 What is Violence?
5.3.2 Transforming Cultural Violence into Sarvodaya
5.4 Discussion, Limitations, Further Research and Policy Implications
5.5 Conclusions
References
6 Where is the Double Dividend? The Relationship Between Different Types of Pro-environmental Behavior and Different Conceptions of Subjective Well-Being
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Literature Review: Well-Being and the Environment
6.3 Methodology
6.3.1 Field Work
6.3.2 Variables and Hypotheses
6.3.3 Method of Analysis
6.4 Results
6.5 Discussion
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Are the Sustainable Development Goals the Compass for a Happier Society?
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Methods
7.3 Results and Discussion
7.4 Conclusions and Way Forward
References
8 Are Turkish Housewives Happy? A Qualitative Approach
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Literature Review
8.3 Methodology
8.4 Results & Discussion
8.4.1 Reasons for Not Working
8.4.2 Social Pressures
8.4.3 Education Levels and Working
8.4.4 The Importance of Working
8.4.5 Socialization
8.4.6 Happiness Sources
8.4.7 Work-Life Balance
8.5 Conclusions
References
9 Inner Happiness and Environmental Preservation in a Green Space Community
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Background and Historical Aspects of Bangkajao Community
9.3 Method of Analysis
9.4 Results and Discussions
9.4.1 Results from Descriptive Survey Data
9.4.2 Empirical Tests
9.5 Conclusion
References
10 How Sustainable is Mobility in Cities Branded the Happiest?
10.1 Introduction
10.1.1 Sustainable Mobility and Happiness
10.1.2 Sustainable Mobility and the Affective Happiness Experience
10.1.3 Sustainable Mobility and the Cognitive Happiness Experience
10.1.4 Branding Happy Cities Through Sustainable Mobility
10.1.5 Sustainable Mobility Metrics Within Happiness Assessment Indexes
10.2 Methods and Procedures
10.2.1 Quantitative Methods
10.2.2 Qualitative Methods
10.3 Results
10.3.1 The Happiest Cities Ranked and Scored Higher in Sustainable Mobility Indexes
10.3.2 The Happiest Cities Promote Sustainable Mobility Modes
10.3.3 Sustainable Mobility Links to the Levels of Happiness in the Happiest Cities
10.4 Conclusion
References
11 Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Multidimensional Approach
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Literature Review
11.3 Data and Methods
11.3.1 Research Design
11.3.2 Variables and Summary Statistics
11.3.3 Models
11.4 Results and Discussion
11.4.1 Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour
11.4.2 Subjective Wellbeing and Sustainable Policies
11.5 Conclusion
Appendix
References
12 Conclusion of Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
12.1 An Honoring
12.2 Sustainability and Happiness Defined
12.3 Integrating Sustainability and Happiness Perspectives
12.4 Closing
