Marks & gudmundsdottir keynote 2 juli

Crisis and Well-being:Economic, environmental and personal

Nic MarksHappiness Works & New Economics Foundation

Dóra Guðrún GuðmundsdóttirDirectorate of Health in Iceland

Agenda

Unemployment crisis

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Italy

Netherlands

Poland

United Kingdom

Iceland

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Chronic Unemployment

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Denmark

Netherlands

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United Kingdom

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Debt

Inequalities

www.equalitytrust.org.uk

Inequalities

Global Inequalities

Global Inequalities

Climate Change

Effects of Climate Change

Well-being

Environment

future seems apocalyptic

Well-being

Environment

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

What is Positive Psychology?

Well-being

Environment

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

What is Positive Psychology?

However sometimes it feels like

PP = “Purely Personal”

Genetic - 50%

Circumstances - 10%

Activities - 40%

Genes – 50%

Circumstances – 10%

Activities – 40%

10% Circumstances! No Way!

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Positive Psychology

needs a motto or a slogan

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Happiness Works

“happiness is a serious business”

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Positive Psychology

“making life better”

UEL – Tim Lomas, Kate Heffron & Itay Ivtzan

economics as if peopleand the planet mattered

Well-being

Environment

Well-being

Economy

Planet

Environment

People

Well-being

Economy

PlanetThe Orthodox

Economy

Environment

People

Well-being

Growth

MaterialsThe Orthodox

Economy

Environment

Labour

Well-being

New

Economy

Environment

Well-being

Resources

Well-being

New

Economy

Environment

Well-being

Resources

Economics as it is now …

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Ecological Footprint (gha per capita)

GDP and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

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East Asia

Transition States

World average

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GDP and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

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GDP and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

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South Asia

East Asia

Transition States

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Economics as if people and planet

mattered

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Ecological Footprint (gha per capita)

Happy Life Years and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

Latin America

Western world

Middle East

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Asia

East Asia

Transition States

World average

Economics as if people and planet

mattered

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Ecological Footprint (gha per capita)

Happy Life Years and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

Latin America

Western world

Middle East

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Asia

East Asia

Transition States

World average

Economics as if people and planet mattered

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Happy Life Years and Ecological Footprint for 151 countries, and world average

Latin America

Western world

Middle East

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Asia

East Asia

Transition States

World average

Well-being

New

Economy

Environment

Well-being

Resources

Well-being

New

Economy

Environment

Well-being

Resources Green Growth

Well-being

New

Economy

Environment

Well-being

ResourcesInclusive Growth

economics as if peopleand the planet mattered

2004

Over to Dora!

Dóra Guðrún GuðmundsdóttirIcelandic Public Health Institute

2004

2014

The policy bias has been to GDP maximisation as a means to increasing welfare…

Policy Intervention

GDP Welfare

But this won’t be corrected by creating parallel goals, as these already exist…

Economic Policy

InterventionGDP

Wellbeing as seen by economics depts.

Other Policy Intervention

Well-beingindicators

Wellbeing as understood by other

policy depts.

… but instead by a more integrated policy process…

Policy Intervention

GDP Indicators of Wellbeing –

now and future

Well-being indicators -

drivers

…allowing policy makers to target good quality growth…

Policy Intervention

↑ GDP ↑

Well-being –now and future

↑Well-beingindicators

…not bad quality growth

Policy Intervention

↑ GDP ↓

Well-being –now and future

↓Well-being indicators

…and sometimes to sacrifice growth.

Policy Intervention

↓ GDP

↑‘Beyond GDP’

indicators

↑Well-being –

now and future

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Now if Positive Psychology is

“making life better”UEL – Tim Lomas, Kate Heffron & Itay Ivtzan

then what can we do?

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GREAT DREAM: Ten Keys to Happier Living

The most important causes of happiness, based on a review of the latest scientific research*:

* The first five keys are based on the Five Ways to Wellbeing developed by nef as part of the UK Foresight Project on Mental Capital.

Do-It-Yourself Happiness -a ‘Well London’ project

Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand

Agenda

FitographyFitness + Photography

a successful social health project

Stockport SchoolsLocal primary school project

12th October 2012

Local Govt activity enabling the Five Ways

Children’s

services

Adult social

care

Planning and

transport

Housing and

community

services

Environmental

services

Work,

worklessness

and the local

economy

Co

nn

ect

Inter-generational activities (eg Merton Council)

Local area co-ordination (eg Middlesborough Council)

Designing in traffic-free spaces (eg Sutton Council)

The Big Lunch (eg St Albans City and District Council)

An area-based growing competition (eg Rushmoor Borough Council)

A local procurement policy (eg Camden Council)

Be

acti

ve

Sports support buddies for disabled young people (eg Nottingham City Council)

Healthy walks scheme (eg Adur District Council)

City centre cycle paths (eg Herefordshire Council)

Enabling council tenants to grow their own food (eg Southwark Council)

Green Gym (eg Bath and North East Somerset Council)

Green space apprenticeships (eg Tamworth Borough Council)

Take

no

tice

Public art project devised in collaboration with young people (eg Bristol City Council)

Arts festival for social inclusion (eg Lambeth Council’s Springforward,)

Auditing green space provision (eg South Gloucestershire Council)

Gardening support for vulnerable residents (eg Hampshire County Council)

Resident involvement in wildlife protection (eg Fareham Borough Council)

Helping local people understand the local economy (eg South Somerset District Council)

Keep

learn

ing

An online directory of informal learning activities for young people, (eg Essex County Council)

Adult learning on prescription (eg Northamptonshire County Council and partners’ Learn 2b scheme)

Identifying sites for self-builders (eg Swindon Borough Council)

Providing training as part of resident involvement (eg South Kesteven District Council)

Community planting day events (eg Banbury Town Council)

Local entrepreneurship coaching (eg Norwich City Council)

Giv

e Peer support awards

for young people (eg Bradford Metropolitan District

Council)

Timebanking to encourage skills swapping and reciprocal volunteering (eg Bromley Council)

Supporting volunteer-led walking bus schemes (eg Thurrock Council)

Using peer-support models to enable independent living and residential support (eg Lincolnshire County Council)

Encouraging volunteers to ‘adopt’ their local area (eg Manchester City Council)

Local business support networks (eg Malvern Hills District Council)

Five Ways to

Wellbeing: new applications, new

ways of thinking

Five Ways to

Wellbeing: postcards and original

evidence report

www.neweconomics.org

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Happiness Works

“happiness is a serious business”

Agenda

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Statistics as Feedback

www.happinessworks.com

Well-being

Environment

Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow … I have a dream

Positive Psychology

“making life better”

Nic Marksnic@happinessworks.com

Dóra Guðrún Guðmundsdóttirdora@publichealth.is