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Wellbeing and Place Wellbeing and Place is a wonderfully wide-ranging examination of two increasingly important policy concepts. This must-read collection offers a critical analysis of mainstream approaches to wellbeing, and shows convincingly how wellbeing and space are linked insolubly. This book takes our understandings of wellbeing in new and exciting directions. Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford, UK This page has been left blank intentionally Wellbeing and Place Edited by Sarah aTKinSOn, Sara FUller and JOe PainTer Durham University, UK © Sarah atkinson, Sara Fuller and Joe Painter 2012 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Sarah atkinson, Sara Fuller and Joe Painter have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east Suite 420 Union road 101 cherry Street Farnham burlington Surrey, gU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 england USa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Wellbeing and place. 1. Well-being. 2. human ecology. 3. human beings--effect of environment on. 4. environmental psychology. 5. environmental health. i. atkinson, Sarah. ii. Fuller, Sara. iii. Painter, Joe, 1965- 304.2'3-dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wellbeing and place / [edited] by Sarah atkinson, Sara Fuller, and Joe Painter. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. iSbn 978-1-4094-2060-6 (hardback) -- iSbn 978-1-4094-2061-3 (ebook) 1. Place attachment--Psychological aspects. 2. human beings--effect of environment on. 3. Well-being i. atkinson, Sarah. ii. Fuller, Sara. iii. Painter, Joe, 1965- bF353.W45 2012 155.9'04--dc23 2012002351 iSbn 9781409420606 (hbk) iSbn 9781409420613 (ebk) III Printed and bound in great britain by the MPg books group, UK. Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix List of Contributors xi Foreword xix 1 Wellbeing and Place 1 Sarah Atkinson, Sara Fuller and Joe Painter 2 Wellbeing: Reflections on Geographical Engagements 15 David Conradson 3 Understanding the Impact of Urban Green Space on Health and Wellbeing 35 Helen Beck 4 The Significance of Material and Social Contexts for Health and Wellbeing in Rural England 53 Mylène Riva and Sarah Curtis 5 Wellbeing and the Neighbourhood: Promoting Choice and Independence for all Ages 73 Rose Gilroy 6 The Role of Place Attachments in Wellbeing 89 Gordon Jack 7 Am I an Eco-Warrior Now? Place, Wellbeing and the Pedagogies of Connection 105 Andrea Wheeler 8 Is ‘Modern Culture’ Bad for Our Wellbeing? Views from ‘Elite’ and ‘Excluded’ Scotland 123 Sandra Carlisle, Phil Hanlon, David Reilly, Andrew Lyon and Gregor Henderson vi Wellbeing and Place 9 Exploring Embodied and Emotional Experiences within the Landscapes of Environmental Volunteering 141 Stuart Muirhead 10 Place Matters: Aspirations and Experiences of Wellbeing in Northeast Thailand 155 Rebecca Schaaf 11 Wellbeing in El Alto, Bolivia 171 Melania Calestani 12 A 21st Century Sustainable Community: Discourses of Local Wellbeing 185 Karen Scott 13 ‘We are the River’: Place, Wellbeing and Aboriginal Identity 201 Lorraine Gibson 14 The New Therapeutic Spaces of the Spa 217 Jo Little 15 Place, Place-making and Planning: An Integral Perspective with Wellbeing in (Body) Mind (and Spirit) 231 Ian Wight Index 249 List of Figures 3.1 Quantity and type of green space and area deprivation 42 3.2 Quantity and type of space by black and minority ethnic population 43 4.1 The urban and rural deprivation profiles of small areas (Middle Super Output Areas) in England 57 4.2 Health outcomes in urban and rural areas, adjusting for individuals’ socio-demographic characteristics and area conditions 61 4.3 Overall predicted probabilities (and plausible value range) of observing good self-rated health and absence of distress in MSOAs within types of urban and rural areas 62 4.4 Individuals’ characteristics and area-level conditions associated with better self-reported health in rural areas of England 64 4.5 Individuals’ characteristics and area-level conditions associated with absence of psychological distress in rural areas of England 65 5.1 The Everyday Life Model 76 5.2 The Geography of Everyday Life 77 5.3 Percentage of people aged 60 and over making economies by categories of everyday expenditure 79 9.1 A volunteer planting Scots Pine trees amongst the heather in the Scottish Highlands 144 9.2 A group of volunteers working together to remove a section of redundant deer fencing 149 15.1 The Four Quadrants of Integral Theory 235 15.2 Spiral Dynamics V-memes Overview 236 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Tables 1.1 Examples of Psychological, Subjective and Hedonic Components 4 1.2 Examples of Psychological, Subjective and Eudaimonic Components 4 1.3 Examples of Economic and Developmental, Objective and Subjective and Eudaimonic Components 5 5.1 UK population of those aged 65 years and over projected to 2030 by percentage increase from 2010 74
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