Urban sustainability and gross national happiness: a review of community well-being domains and dimensions
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2021
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development.inderscienceonline.com
Abstract
The effort in measuring well-being and happiness by plethora
of different indicators and frameworks are stepping up globally, despite critics
for not being accepted as the national indicator to promote subjective
well-being due to the methodological approach and choices of dimensions
employed. This study, reviews current research on community well-being
measurement to justify the inclusion of different sustainability metrics to
optimise outcomes for national happiness and urban sustainability. Forty-four
(44) scientific articles were identified, out of 300 research studies drawn from
the electronic data search from the world of science focusing on key
dimensions: economic, social, environment, governance, politics, culture, and
health. Finding shows that social dimension and objective approach remains the
most studied on community well-being with few studies on subjective domain.
Finding suggests that a multidisciplinary conceptual framework towards a
holistic view is desirable to allow for a more theory-based tool to evaluate
multidimensional issues of community well-being at all levels.
Description
Keywords
community assessment, urban dimensions, subjective well-being, sustainable development.
Citation
Musa, H.D., Yacob, M.R., Abdullah, A.M. and Ishak, M.Y. (2020) ‘Urban sustainability and gross national happiness: a review of community well-being domains and dimensions’, Int. J. Innovation and Sustainable Development, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.157–184.