Overview
- Invites readers to participate in sustainable and ethical governance
- Develops a reframed approach to measure wellbeing – not productivity – as a sign of economic success
- Makes the case for social change through exploring post disciplinary and post materialist frameworks to address greed, zero sum competition for resources, the commodification of the powerless and the environment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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About the author
Janet McIntyre-Mills is Associate Professor Flinders University, and Adjunct Professor University of Indonesia. Her books address social and environmental justice concerns and include, for example: ‘Global Citizenship and Social Movements’, Harwood, McMillan, ‘Critical Systemic Praxis for Social and Environmental Justice’, Springer; ‘Systemic Governance and Accountability: working and re-working the conceptual and spatial boundaries,’ published by Springer; ‘User Centric policy design to address complex need’s, Nova Science. Emergence has recently published ‘Identity, democracy and sustainability’. It proposes a new architecture for governance.
Her research addresses wellbeing, consciousness and cosmopolitan ethics associated with the design and transformation of governance and democracy. It focuses on excessive social, economic and environmental consumption and suggests ways to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change through protecting cultural ecosystems. She is a board member of several journals, including the Journal of Globalization Studies, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, for example. She is an elected board member of Research Committee 10 on Participation and Organizational Transformation of the International Sociological Association, and has participated in Research Committee 51 of Socio-cybernetics. She is also a member of the International Systems Sciences and the Action Learning and Action Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transformation from Wall Street to Wellbeing
Book Subtitle: Joining Up the Dots Through Participatory Democracy and Governance to Mitigate the Causes and Adapt to the Effects of Climate Change
Authors: Janet McIntyre-Mills
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7466-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7465-5Published: 03 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7857-8Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7466-2Published: 02 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 221
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Quality of Life Research