Title :	Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement : The Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gross National Happiness
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Dasho Karma Ura, Editor ; Dorji Penjore, Editor
Publisher:	Thimphu: The Centre for Bhutan Studies
Publication Date:	2009
Pagination:	xxiv, 695 p.
Layout:	Tables, ill.
Size:	22.5 cm.
ISBN (or other code):	978-99936-14-52-4
Price:	-
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	[LCSH]Happiness [LCSH]National -- Bhutan
Keywords:	Happiness, National
Class number:	HC440.25 D61G 2009
Contents note:	Measurement 1 Measuring Progress Towards GNH: From GNH Indicators to GNH National Accounts? Ronald Colman -- 2 The Analysis of Results of Research into ‘The Ideal Society’ in Japan, Sweden and Bhutan – Using the Indicators of Human Satisfaction Measure, Terue Ohashi -- 3 The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies: A global movement for a global challenge, Jon Hall -- 4 Creating National Accounts of Wellbeing; a parallel process to GNH, Nic Marks -- Psychological Wellbeing 5 Can We Have Both Psychological and Ecological Wellbeing, George Burns -- 6 The Nature-Nurture Debate: New Evidence and Good News, Ragnhild Bang Nes -- Time Use 7 Time use and Happiness, Karma Galay –- Culture 8 Internalizing the Other–Cross Cultural Understanding in Arts and Education, Sharon Lowen -- 9 Role of meditation in promoting happiness, Khenpo Phuntsho Tashi -- 10 The Semantic Structure of Gross National Happiness: A View From Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Carl Polley –- Community Vitality 11 Development and (Un)happiness: A case Study from Rural Ethiopia, Dena Freeman -- 12 Religious Institution Based Community-hood and Identity of a ‘Muslim Community’ in a ‘Remote’ Rural Village in Bangladesh, Mohammed Kamruzzaman -- 13 To Think Like an Island: Three-Capital Model in Pursuing GNH in Taiwan, Juju Chin Shou Wang -- Ecological Diversity and Resilience 14 Institutional Challenges to ‘Patience’ in the Collective Management of Public Goods, Ram Fishman -- 15 Status Symbols, Ecosystems and Sustainability, Arthur Fishman -- Good Governance 16 Good Organizational Practice and GNH: A Proposal for Organizational Performance Indicators, Anne-Marie Schreven -- 17 Between Earth and Sky: Formal Organizations as Instrument in Creating GNH, John Nirenberg -- 18 Do Information and Communication Technologies Further or Hinder Gross National Happiness?, Jason Whalley and Kezang -- 19 ICT Key Role in the Economic Development of Haiti: Lessons from Pilot Projects in Rural Haiti and Associated Directions of Contribution to the GNH Index, Serge MirandaFrantz Verella, and Tahar Saiah -- Health 20 A Paradigm Shift in Health Care to Increase GNH, Dr Chencho Dorji -- 21 Nature- Deficit Disorder and the Spirit of Wilderness, Dave Augeri – 22 Dynamic Aging, Ethel Lowen -- Education 23 Western Education, Socialization and Individualism, Andrie Kusserow -- 24 Gross National Happiness in the Classroom – A Teacher’s Thoughts, Meena Srinivasan -- 25 Conceptualising Education for Constitutional Monarchy System: Meiji Japan’s View and Approach, Masanori Kakutani -- 26 Schools in Rural Areas and GNH: Endogenous Actions of Small Communities in Japan and Sweden, Michiyo Okuma Nystrom -- Living Standard 27 Shift in the Measure of Quality of Life viz-a-viz Happiness – A Study of Phongmey Gewog and Trashigang Town in Eastern Bhutan, Vijay Shrotryia -- 28 Japan’s Paradigm Shift from Growth to Happiness: Slowing Down to Advance Wellbeing, Junko Edahiro and Riichiro Oda -- 29 Food Security and Gross National Happiness, Akiko Ueda -- 30 Optimal Condition of Happiness: Application of Taguchi Robust Parameter Design on Evidences from India, Prabhat Pankaj and Deobra -- GNH – The Way Forward 31 The Future of Happiness as a National Pursuit, Ross MacDonald -- 32 Critical Holism: A New Development Paradigm Inspired by Gross National Happiness?, Hans van Willenswaard -- 33 GNH: Changing Views, a Label for Quality Information, Nille van Hellemont
Curricular :	GE
Record link:	http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=28465

Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement : The Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gross National Happiness [printed text] / Dasho Karma Ura, Editor ; Dorji Penjore, Editor . - Bhutan : Thimphu: The Centre for Bhutan Studies, 2009 . - xxiv, 695 p. : Tables, ill. ; 22.5 cm.
ISBN : 978-99936-14-52-4 : -
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:	[LCSH]Happiness [LCSH]National -- Bhutan
Keywords:	Happiness, National
Class number:	HC440.25 D61G 2009
Contents note:	Measurement 1 Measuring Progress Towards GNH: From GNH Indicators to GNH National Accounts? Ronald Colman -- 2 The Analysis of Results of Research into ‘The Ideal Society’ in Japan, Sweden and Bhutan – Using the Indicators of Human Satisfaction Measure, Terue Ohashi -- 3 The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies: A global movement for a global challenge, Jon Hall -- 4 Creating National Accounts of Wellbeing; a parallel process to GNH, Nic Marks -- Psychological Wellbeing 5 Can We Have Both Psychological and Ecological Wellbeing, George Burns -- 6 The Nature-Nurture Debate: New Evidence and Good News, Ragnhild Bang Nes -- Time Use 7 Time use and Happiness, Karma Galay –- Culture 8 Internalizing the Other–Cross Cultural Understanding in Arts and Education, Sharon Lowen -- 9 Role of meditation in promoting happiness, Khenpo Phuntsho Tashi -- 10 The Semantic Structure of Gross National Happiness: A View From Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Carl Polley –- Community Vitality 11 Development and (Un)happiness: A case Study from Rural Ethiopia, Dena Freeman -- 12 Religious Institution Based Community-hood and Identity of a ‘Muslim Community’ in a ‘Remote’ Rural Village in Bangladesh, Mohammed Kamruzzaman -- 13 To Think Like an Island: Three-Capital Model in Pursuing GNH in Taiwan, Juju Chin Shou Wang -- Ecological Diversity and Resilience 14 Institutional Challenges to ‘Patience’ in the Collective Management of Public Goods, Ram Fishman -- 15 Status Symbols, Ecosystems and Sustainability, Arthur Fishman -- Good Governance 16 Good Organizational Practice and GNH: A Proposal for Organizational Performance Indicators, Anne-Marie Schreven -- 17 Between Earth and Sky: Formal Organizations as Instrument in Creating GNH, John Nirenberg -- 18 Do Information and Communication Technologies Further or Hinder Gross National Happiness?, Jason Whalley and Kezang -- 19 ICT Key Role in the Economic Development of Haiti: Lessons from Pilot Projects in Rural Haiti and Associated Directions of Contribution to the GNH Index, Serge MirandaFrantz Verella, and Tahar Saiah -- Health 20 A Paradigm Shift in Health Care to Increase GNH, Dr Chencho Dorji -- 21 Nature- Deficit Disorder and the Spirit of Wilderness, Dave Augeri – 22 Dynamic Aging, Ethel Lowen -- Education 23 Western Education, Socialization and Individualism, Andrie Kusserow -- 24 Gross National Happiness in the Classroom – A Teacher’s Thoughts, Meena Srinivasan -- 25 Conceptualising Education for Constitutional Monarchy System: Meiji Japan’s View and Approach, Masanori Kakutani -- 26 Schools in Rural Areas and GNH: Endogenous Actions of Small Communities in Japan and Sweden, Michiyo Okuma Nystrom -- Living Standard 27 Shift in the Measure of Quality of Life viz-a-viz Happiness – A Study of Phongmey Gewog and Trashigang Town in Eastern Bhutan, Vijay Shrotryia -- 28 Japan’s Paradigm Shift from Growth to Happiness: Slowing Down to Advance Wellbeing, Junko Edahiro and Riichiro Oda -- 29 Food Security and Gross National Happiness, Akiko Ueda -- 30 Optimal Condition of Happiness: Application of Taguchi Robust Parameter Design on Evidences from India, Prabhat Pankaj and Deobra -- GNH – The Way Forward 31 The Future of Happiness as a National Pursuit, Ross MacDonald -- 32 Critical Holism: A New Development Paradigm Inspired by Gross National Happiness?, Hans van Willenswaard -- 33 GNH: Changing Views, a Label for Quality Information, Nille van Hellemont
Curricular :	GE
Record link:	http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=28465