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Happiness and well-being found their way back into public debate in the UK with Prime Minister David Cameron wanting well-being to become a measure to steer policy<\/a>. Maybe he was inspired by his recent trip to the G20 meeting in Asia: On the Asian continent lies the first country to have introduced Gross National Happiness<\/a> as a measure for the country’s development – rather than economic growth, like we keep on doing. Happiness as the new economics<\/a> is an appealing thought, but it is hard to imagine any major economy looking at happiness instead of money any time soon. And if so, how would the world look like? Happiness is hard to measure, and hence data is hard to get. One way to look at the well-being around the world provides the Happy Planet Index<\/a> by the nef (new economics foundation).
\nLast year Sheffield University’s CWiPP<\/a> is holding an exhibition at the ICOSS<\/a> to mark the re-launch of the centre. My poster showing a new map of the Happy Planet Index<\/a> was part of the exhibition:
\n\"pdf Download poster as PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mapping<\/a><\/p>\n

This map is also featured in the News section of the Happy Planet Index homepage<\/a>.
\nUpdate March 2011:<\/strong> I have given a talk explaining the methodological background and the thematic relevance of the map at the IDEA CETL Seminar Series (University of Leeds). The slides of this talk are available here:
\nMapping people, not sheep: Why our planet’s well-being can look so different<\/a><\/div>\n

The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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