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The Well-being Transition

Analysis and Policy

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Written by experts and policymakers who are contributing to well-being indicators and policies
  • Relates inequality and health to sustainability
  • Offers practical institutional reforms in the shift towards well-being policies

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Connecting Well-being to Sustainability: The Justice-sustainability Nexus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Climate Change and Climate Justice

      • Jean Jouzel
      Pages 13-23
  3. The Health-sustainability Nexus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Toward Health-Environment Policy in a Well-being Economy

      • Éloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori, Alessandro Galli, Amanda Janoo, Raluca Munteanu et al.
      Pages 73-93
  4. From Well-being Metrics to Well-being Policies: Building a Well-being Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. The Forum for Alternative Indicators of Wealth: Beyond GDP, Democratically

      • Florence Jany-Catrice, Dominique Méda
      Pages 141-156
    3. In Well-being We Trust: The Nova Scotia Quality of Life Initiative

      • Michael Flood, Éloi Laurent
      Pages 181-202
  5. Well-being Policies, from Global to Local

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
    2. Is Resilience Measurable?

      • Magali Reghezza-Zitt
      Pages 255-270
  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

About this book

The purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity. A decade after the publication of the Stiglitz Report (2009), alternative visions to GDP and growth, that flourished in the 1970s, have re-emerged from all corners of the world, at all levels of governance. Yet, GDP and growth remain very much dominant in defining public policies, influencing businesses and shaping imaginaries.

This book moves forward on two urgent tasks that stand before us in order to make progress in the well-being transition: first, connecting well-being to sustainability in a consistent framework highlighting their complementarity, using health as a pivot; second, operationalizing well-being indicators, i.e. integrating them into policy at alllevels of governance.


Editors and Affiliations

  • OFCE/Sciences Po Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France

    Éloi Laurent

About the editor

Éloi Laurent is a Senior Research Fellow at OFCE (Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research, Paris), Professor at the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation and Ponts ParisTech, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Well-being Transition

  • Book Subtitle: Analysis and Policy

  • Editors: Éloi Laurent

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67860-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67859-3Published: 30 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67862-3Published: 31 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67860-9Published: 29 March 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 285

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems

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eBook USD 139.00
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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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