Handbook of Community Well-Being Research

1. Planning, Design, and Measuring

   1. From National to Local: Measuring Well-Being at the Community Level

      • Bryan Smale, Margo Hilbrecht

      Pages 293-312

   2. Building Well-Being: Neighbourhood Flourishing and Approaches for Participatory Urban Design Intervention

      • Jamie Anderson, Cathy Baldwin

      Pages 313-337

   3. Stakeholder Preferences on a Working Waterfront: Quality of Life, Land Uses and Planning Processes in Chelsea, Massachusetts

      • Justin B. Hollander, Jessica Soule

      Pages 339-354

   4. LISADEMAS: A Life Satisfaction Decision-Making System for Integrated Community Development Planning

      • Vaios Kotsios

      Pages 355-383

   5. A Geographic and Mixed Methods Approach to Capture Unequal Quality-of-Life Conditions

      • Javier Martinez, Jeroen Verplanke, Gianluca Miscione

      Pages 385-402

   6. Distinguishing Flourishing from Distressed Communities: Vulnerability, Resilience and a Systemic Framework to Facilitate Well-Being

      • Clifford J. Shultz II, Don R. Rahtz, M. Joseph Sirgy

      Pages 403-421

   7. Measuring Community Well-Being and Individual Well-Being for Public Policy: The Case of the Community Well-Being Atlas

      • Yunji Kim, Kai Ludwigs

      Pages 423-433

   8. Delivering Community Well-Being from the Happy City Concept: A Practical Approach to Urban Planning and Design

      • Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao, Shao-Kuan Liu, Balint Kalman, Hsin-Chieh Cindy Lu, Miaoqi Cai

      Pages 435-452

2. Community Concepts and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 453-453

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   2. The Role of Community-Based Organizations: The Case of the Saemaul Undong Women’s Club

      • Oe-Chool Choi

      Pages 455-472

   3. Rural Poverty and Well-Being: Material and Sociocultural Disconnections

      • Paul Milbourne, Brian Webb

      Pages 473-486

   4. The Role of Spirituality in Building Capacity for Women’s Leadership in Crisis Conditions: A Community Level Analysis of Burma

      • Phyusin Myint

      Pages 487-503

   5. The Decisive Contribution of Youth to Community Well-Being

      • Ilya Shodjaee-Zrudlo, Hoda Farahmandpour

      Pages 505-521

   6. Community Well-Being and National Well-Being: The Opinion of Young People

      • Graciela Tonon

      Pages 523-530

   7. Understanding the Impact of Alberta’s Early Child Development Community Coalitions on Community Well-Being

      • Samantha Berger, Launa Clark, Line Marie Perron

      Pages 531-545

   8. The Green Machine Mobile Market: An Innovative Response to Food Insecurity in the Bluff City

      • Antonio Raciti, Kenneth M. Reardon

      Pages 547-574

   9. Can Living Wage Be a Win-Win Policy? A Study of Living Wage Effects on Employer and Employee Performance in Hamilton, Canada

      • Zhaocheng Zeng, Benson Honig

      Pages 575-592

3. Erratum: LISADEMAS: A Life Satisfaction Decision-Making System for Integrated Community Development Planning

   • Vaios Kotsios

   Pages E1-E1

This Handbook brings together foundational and leading-edge research exploring dimensions of improving quality of life in communities of place. Social indicators and other assessment techniques will be explored, including from the framework of community perspectives which is concerned with enhancing quality of life for community members. As part of this trans-disciplinary work, participation, engagement, and empowerment will be key concepts presented. Along with capacity building and service provision, these elements influence community well-being and will be considered along with subjective and objective assessment approaches. Researchers from around the globe share their work on this important topic of community well-being, bringing together a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Those working in the areas of public policy, community development, community and social psychology, urban and regional planning, and sustainable development will find this volume particularly usefulfor the array of approaches presented.

• Community Indicators
• Context of Social Psychology
• Enhancing quality of Life for Community Members
• Individual and community well-being
• Measure Community Well-Being
• Social Interaction amongst people
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“‘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)

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• Honors College and Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Rhonda Phillips

• School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  Cecilia Wong

Rhonda Phillips' research and outreach efforts focus on quality of life and well-being related to community and economic development. At Purdue, she serves as Dean of the Honors College, and a Professor in the Agricultural Economics Department. Rhonda is author or editor of 20 books, including Sustainable Communities, Creating a Durable Local Economy; Community Development Indicators Measuring Systems; and Introduction to Community Development. She is editor of the series Community Quality of Life and Well-Being. Formerly a Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Global Institute of Sustainability, Rhonda served as director and professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University, and founding director of the University of Florida’s Center for Building Better Communities. She is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP). She is currently President of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and a co-researcher with the Community Wellbeing Institute, a Social Science Korea Project.


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).

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