| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 5, 2010). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; 1 Theorising wellbeing in international development; Part I Human needs and human wellbeing; 2 Conceptualising human needs and wellbeing; 3 Basic psychological needs: a self-determination theory perspective on the promotion of wellness across development and cultures; 4 Measuring freedoms alongside wellbeing; 5 Using security to indicate wellbeing; 6 Towards a measure of non-economic wellbeing achievement; Part II Resources, agency and meaning. |
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7 Wellbeing, livelihoods and resources in social practice8 Livelihoods and resource accessing in the Andes: desencuentros in theory and practice; 9 Poverty and exclusion, resources and relationships: theorising the links between economic and social development; Part III Quality of life and subjective wellbeing; 10 Cross-cultural quality of life assessment approaches and experiences from the health care field; 11 Researching quality of li. |
| Summary |
Establishes a new paradigm for development centred on the idea of human wellbeing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Basic needs -- Developing countries.
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Basic needs. |
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Developing countries. |
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Well-being.
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Well-being. |
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Quality of life -- Developing countries.
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Quality of life. |
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Quality of life -- Research.
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Quality of life -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gough, Ian.
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McGregor, J. Allister.
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| Added Title |
Well-being in developing countries |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wellbeing in developing countries. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 0521857511 (DLC) 2006032430 (OCoLC)71812822 |
| ISBN |
9780511285257 (electronic book ebrary) |
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0511285256 (electronic book ebrary) |
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0511284438 (electronic book ebrary) |
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9780511284434 (electronic book ebrary) |
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0511286015 (electronic book) |
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9780511286018 (electronic book) |
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0511322275 (e-book) |
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9780511322273 (e-book) |
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9780511286735 (electronic book) |
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0511286732 (electronic book) |
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9780511488986 (ebook) |
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051148898X (ebook) |
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9786610909919 |
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6610909911 |
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9780521857512 (hardback) |
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0521857511 (hardback) |
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