Global/EU

What makes us happy? Australia’s first & foremost guide to wellbeing, Australian Unit (2008)http://australianunity.republicast.com/wbr2008/Australian%20Unity%20Wellbeing%20Index%20Report%20
April%202008.pdf (5.84MB)

Measures of well-being: There is more to it than GDP, Deutsche Bank Research (2006)
http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000202587.pdf (0.29MB)

Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition in Ireland Mental Health and Social Well-being Report, Department of
Health and Children (2009)
http://www.slan06.ie/Slan2007_Mental_Health_Report_9.3_MB.pdf (9.28MB)

Sociability Predicts Happiness: World-Wide Evidence from Time Series, Department of Economics, University of Siena
(2009)
http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/quaderni/579.pdf (1.54MB)

The new science of happiness: What makes the human heart sing? Researchers are taking a close look.
What they’ve found may surprise you, Times Magazine (2004)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015902,00.html

Beyond Facts: Understanding quality of life, Inter-American Development Bank
(2008)
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1775002 (7.07MB)

Mental health, resilience and inequalities, WHO (2009)
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/100821/E92227.pdf (0.44MB)

UK

People’s attachment to place – the influence of neighbourhood deprivation, JRF (2008)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2200-neighbourhoods-attachment-deprivation.pdf (0.42MB)

Building Community well-being: An exploration of themes and issues, Scottish Executive (2003)http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/47102/0027026.pdf (0.49MB)

Characteristics associated with resilience in children at high risk of involvement in anti-social and other problem
behaviour: Findings, Home Office
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/r283.pdf (0.78MB)

Local Index of Child Well-Being: Summary Report, Communities & Local Government (2009)http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1126232.pdf (0.25MB)

Cleaning up neighbourhoods: Environmental problems and service provision in deprived areas, JRF (2005)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/1861348169.pdf (0.31MB)

Public health intervention guidance on promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of young people in secondary
education: Synopsis of the evidence and economic modelling, NICE
http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/11883/42553/42553.pdf (0.10MB)

Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness, The Royal Society (2004)http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/359/1449/1333.full.pdf+html

Connect…Be Active…Take Notice…Keep Learning…Give… Five ways to wellbeing: A report presented to the Foresight
Project on communicating the evidence base for improving people’s well-being, New Economics Foundation (2008)
http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/Five_Ways_to_Well-being_Evidence_1.pdf (0.24MB)

Mental Capital and Wellbeing: Making the most of ourselves in the 21^st century: Final Project Report, The
Government Office for Science (2008)
http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Mental%20Capital/SR-C10_MCW.pdf (0.15MB)

Well-being: towards an integration of psychology, neurobiology and social science, The Royal Society (2004)
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/359/1449/1447.full.pdf+html

Person- or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works, JFR (2008)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2176-policies-people-place.pdf (0.39MB)

Developing active networks in local communities: A review of Local Links, a pilot programme in West Yorkshire, JRF
(2008)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2167-networks-local-communities.pdf (0.16MB)

Neighbourliness + Employment = Wellbeing: Is there a formula for happy communities? LSE
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/ERD/pressAndInformationOffice/
PDF/NeighbourlinessEmpowermentWellbeing.pdf (7.80MB)

Local Wellbeing: Can we measure it? The Young Foundation
http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/YF_wellbeing_measurement_web.pdf (5.38MB)

Measuring well-being in policy: issues and applications, New Economics Foundation (2008)http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/Measuring_well-being_in_policy.pdf (0.29MB)

National Accounts of Well-being: bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet, New Economics Foundation (2009)http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/National_Accounts_of_Well-being_1.pdf (2.52MB)

Literature Review: Resilience in Children and Young People, NCH (2007)
http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/uploads/media/36/1582.pdf (0.12MB)

The Time Of Our Lives: Using time banking for neighbourhood renewal and community capacity building: Research findings about the time banks in the UK, New Economics Foundation
http://www.timebanks.co.uk/downloads/the%20time%20of%20our%20lives_summary%20evaluation.pdf (0.13MB)

Neighbourhood identity: People, time and place, JRF (2008)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2154-neighbourhood-identity-regeneration.pdf (2.57MB)

Neighbourhood security and urban change: Risk, resilience and recovery, JRF (2006)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/1938-neighbourhood-security-change.pdf (0.22)

Neighbouring in contemporary Britain: A think-piece for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Housing and Neighbourhoods Committee, The Young Foundation (2006)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/9781859355114.pdf (0.23MB)

Parenting and resilience, JRF (2007)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/parenting-resilience-children.pdf (0.20MB)

Enhancing the use of public spaces in cities, JRF (2005)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/0445.pdf (0.10MB)

Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?
Young Lives (2007)
http://www.younglives.org.uk/pdf/publication-section-pdfs/Journals-and-other-publications/CPRC73_Boyden_Cooper.pdf (0.20MB)

Strong and prosperous communities: The Local Government White Paper, Department for Communities and
Local Government (2006)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/154067.pdf (0.60MB)

The receding tide: understanding unmet needs in a harsher economic climate: interim findings of the
mapping needs project, The Young Foundation (2009)http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/publications/The_Receding_Tide.pdf (1.16MB)

The value of new transport in deprived areas: Who benefits, how and why?, JRF (2008)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2228-transport-regeneration-deprivation.pdf (2.23MB)

Summary of literature sources for happiness and wellbeing, The Young Foundation (2006)http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/web_lit_review.pdf (0.18MB)

Attachment to place: Social networks, mobility and prospects of young people, JRF (2007)
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2126-attachment-to-place.pdf (3.93MB)

Fixing the Future: Innovating more effective responses to recession, The Young Foundation (2009)http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/publications/FixingthefutureV2_26Feb09.pdf (0.34MB)

NI

Mental Health Promotion: Building an Economic Case, NIMAH (2007)
http://www.chex.org.uk/uploads/mhpeconomiccase.pdf?sess_scdc=ee4428ebde41914abac0e0535f55861c (1.23MB)