Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality

Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality
Author: Darcia Narvaez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319977342

Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one’s potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske - which includes belonging, understanding, control/competence, autonomy, self-enhancement, trust, purpose and life satisfaction - this book demonstrates that the fulfilment of basic needs predicts adult physical and mental health, as well as sociality and morality. The authors suggest that meeting basic needs in childhood vitally shapes one’s trajectory for self-actualization, and that initiatives aimed at human wellbeing should include a greater emphasis on early childhood experience. Through contemporaneous and retrospective research in childhood, the authors argue that basic need-fulfilment is key to the development of the self and the possibility of reaching one’s full potential. This book will be of interest to scholars of human wellbeing and societal flourishing, as well as to health workers and educators.

Basic Needs in Developing Countries

Basic Needs in Developing Countries
Author: Frances Stewart
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Economic analysis of economic planning approaches to meet basic needs in developing countries - develops a macroeconomic planning framework; looks at alternative planning and policy options; makes a comparison of basic needs achievements in selected countries and types of economic policy associated with each; includes case studies of Nigeria and Tanzania. ILO mentioned. Bibliography, diagrams, graphs, references, statistical tables.

First Things First

First Things First
Author: Paul Streeten
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1981
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195203690

The authors defend the basic needs' approach to economic development which has been the subject of controversy and suspicion among many groups.

Self-Determination Theory

Self-Determination Theory
Author: Richard Ryan
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462538967

"Among the most influential models in contemporary behavioral science, self-determination theory (SDT) offers a broad framework for understanding the factors that promote human motivation and psychological flourishing. In this authoritative work, SDT cofounders Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci systematically review the theory's conceptual underpinnings, empirical evidence base, and practical applications across the lifespan. Ryan and Deci demonstrate that supporting people's basic needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy is critically important for virtually all aspects of individual and societal functioning."--Jacket.

Heat, Greed and Human Need

Heat, Greed and Human Need
Author: Ian Gough
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785365118

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unprecedented rise in the emissions efficiency of production) it envisages two further policy stages vital for rich countries: a progressive ‘recomposition’ of consumption, and a post-growth ceiling on demand. An essential resource for scholars and policymakers.

Human Scale Development

Human Scale Development
Author: Manfred A. Max-Neef
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Presents a people-centred approach to development.

The Irreducible Needs Of Children

The Irreducible Needs Of Children
Author: T. Berry Brazelton
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009-02-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0786731222

What do babies and young children really need? This impassioned dialogue cuts through all the theories, platitudes, and controversies that surround parenting advice to define what every child must have in the first years of life. The authors, both famed advocates for children, lay out the seven irreducible needs of any child, in any society, and confront such thorny questions as: How much time do children need one-on-one with a parent? What is the effect of shifting caregivers, of custody arrangements? Why are we knowingly letting children fail in school? Nothing is off limits, even such an issue as whether every child needs or deserves to be a wanted child. This short, hard-hitting book, the fruit of decades of experience and caring, sounds a wake-up call for parents, teachers, judges, social workers, policy makers-anyone who cares about the welfare of children.