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Modeling Community Well-Being: A Multi-dimensional Approach

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This chapter aims to model community well-being as the appropriate value goal for effective local governance. The community well-being model is based on an analysis of related concepts and highlighting the uniqueness of community well-being. It is also connected to community development, defined as both a process and an outcome for achieving community goals.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (NRF-2010-330-B00259).

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  1. Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Youngwha Kee

  2. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Yunji Kim

  3. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

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    Youngwha Kee

  2. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Yunji Kim

  3. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

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Kee, Y., Kim, Y., Phillips, R. (2015). Modeling Community Well-Being: A Multi-dimensional Approach. In: Kee, Y., Kim, Y., Phillips, R. (eds) Learning and Community Approaches for Promoting Well-Being. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12439-1_1

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