Expert Panellist Report on Wellbeing & Aspirations
Authors
Christopher Boyko, Nick Smith & Claire Coulton
This brief report summarises a series of discussions between RC2: Wellbeing researchers and Expert Panellists, held between March and April 2013. The discussions related to three themes:
Aspirations
- Aspirations and cities
- Aspirations and low-carbon
- Measuring aspirations
- Managing aspirations
Current and future issues facing cities
- Infrastructure
- Governance, policy and politics
- Economic and social issues
- Housing provision
- Geographical issues
Wellbeing
- What is meant by wellbeing
- Social contributions to wellbeing
- The contribution of geography and layout to wellbeing
- Low-carbon and wellbeing
- Requirements for learning and research about low-carbon cities
- Social change and low-carbon
- Policy
- Edginess and ambiguity
