Towards Sustainable Well-Being: Moving beyond GDP in Canada and the World

Contents\nPreface\nAbbreviations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPart One: Background and Visions\n1 The Long Road beyond GDP: Have We Finally Reached a Time for Breakthroughs?\n2 Ten Years After: From SSF to HLEG – An Agenda for Well-Being Measurement in the Next Decade\n3 Measures for a New Economy: Shifting Power via Public Participation\nPART TWO International Experiences and Perspectives\n4 Beyond GDP, Beyond Numbers: Bhutan’s Journey towards Gross National Happiness\n5 Well-Being in British Politics and Policy\n6 Integrating Well-Being Indicators in Budgetary Procedures: Four Shades of Sincerity\n7 Beyond “Beyond GDP” in the EU: What’s Next?\n8 Contributions of the Genuine Progress Indicator to Measuring and Promoting Welfare\n9 Measuring What Matters: Policy Applications in New Zealand\nPART THREE Canadian Experiences and Perspectives\n10 Beyond Dollars and Cents: The Canadian Index of Wellbeing and Nova Scotia Quality of Life Initiative\n11 Building an Epidemiology of Happiness\n12 Well-Being, Sustainability, and Progress: A Framework for Public and Policy Discourse and for Quantitative Decision-Making Using the Life Satisfaction Approach\n13 Measuring Comprehensive Wealth in Canada\n14 Time for a Reality Check: Lessons from Bhutan, Canada, and New Zealand\nConclusion: Towards Sustainable Well-Being\nContributors\nIndex