Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change

Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change

By Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, James Bradbury, John de Graaf, and Clinton Bliss

The book bridges the gap between happiness and sustainable social change, providing a guide for students to increase their literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. It can help students live a life that contributes to the well-being of others and the sustainability of our planet.

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Book Information

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 07/14/2020
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780367488727
ISBN-10: 0367488728
Language: English

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Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change is the first textbook bridging the gap between personal happiness and sustainable social change. The book provides a guide for students to increase their skills, literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. Further, it can help students live a life that brings them happiness and contributes to the well-being of others and the sustainability of our planet.

The book is presented in seven chapters covering the subjects of systems thinking, personal and societal values, measuring happiness, human needs, ecological sustainability and public policy. In addition, each section includes engaging exercises to empower students to develop their own ideas, prompts for group discussion, suggestions for additional research and an extensive list of resources and references. The book is written in the context of systems thinking with a style that is approachable and accessible.

Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability provides essential reading for students in courses on happiness, social change and sustainability studies, and provides a comprehensive framework for instructors looking to initiate courses in this field.

A website to support the professors teaching the book is available at: https: //www.happycounts.org/coursebook.html

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

About the Authors

Laura Musikanski is Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Happiness Initiative. Prior to joining the Happiness Initiative, Laura served as Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, and before that she was the Sustainability Director for a medium-sized environmental consulting firm and an entrepreneur and small business owner for 18 years.

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Rhonda Phillips is a community well-being, development and planning specialist and the Dean of Purdue Honors College. She is a three-time Fulbright award recipient and author or editor of 28 books, including co-author of The Happiness Policy Handbook. Rhonda holds a PhD in city and regional planning and a MS in economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Laura Musikanski is executive director and co-founder of the Happiness Alliance and co-author of The Happiness Policy Handbook. She is chair of IEEE P7010 Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-being. Laura holds a JD and MBA, both from the University of Washington, and is a member of the Washington State Bar Association.<

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John de Graaf is an internationally renowned author, speaker and producer of more than 40 television documentaries. John's books include Affluenza and What's The Economy For, Anyway? He co-founded the Happiness Alliance, as well as two other nonprofit organizations: And Beauty for All and Take Back Your Time.

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Clinton Bliss is an administrator and practicing physician who works within the health care model of bio-psycho-social systems thinking. Clinton holds an MD from UCLA School of Medicine and a Board Certification in Family Medicine from the University of Washington. He is a board director of the Happiness Alliance.<

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