Overview
- First of its kind to offer a compendium of knowledge, approaches and insights into understanding community well-being
- Offers a comprehensive review of research in community well-being
- Provides a collection of foundational as well as leading-edge information on an emerging trans-disciplinary area of interest
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life (IHQL)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Foundations
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Engaging and Participating for Well-Being
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The “Health” of Well-Being
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About this book
Reviews
“‘Handbook of Community Well-Being Research,’ edited by Ronda Phillips and Cecilia Wong (2017), brings together foundational and leading-edge research that reflects the complexity of the central notion mainstreaming the multidisciplinary approach of the work: community well-being and its expression in the geographical space. … the work invites us to assume shared initiatives with the academia, policymakers and the community at large to be able to move forward in the understanding of the achievement of well-being in all community dimensions.” (Marisa Cristina Sagua, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 13, 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cecilia Wong is Professor of Spatial Planning and Director of Centre for Urban Policy Studies at the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, Co-Editor of Town Planning Review, and Member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Grant Assessment Panel. She is a chartered town planner and received degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester. Her research interests include quantitative indicators, spatial policy monitoring and analysis, urban and regional development, and housing and infrastructure planning. She has conducted major research projects for the UK central government departments, Economic and Social Research Council, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Royal Town Planning Institute, and regional and local bodies. She was a commissioner of theUK Labour Party’s Lyons Housing Review and expert panel members of Department for Community and Local Government’s planning and housing panel, the European Commission’s Urban Audit II and the UN-Habitat City Prosperity Index (Middle East).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Community Well-Being Research
Editors: Rhonda Phillips, Cecilia Wong
Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0878-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0876-8Published: 23 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1425-7Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0878-2Published: 10 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2468-7227
Series E-ISSN: 2468-7235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 592
Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Community and Environmental Psychology, Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning