Special section on well-being in academic employees.

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Kinman ◽  
Sheena Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Well Being

scholarly journals Nurses’ Mental Health and Well-Being: COVID-19 Impacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Stelnicki ◽  
R. Nicholas Carleton ◽  
Carol Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Canadian Study ◽  
Health And Well Being

The editorial will introduce a special section on nurses’ mental health and well-being that will showcase results from a groundbreaking pan-Canadian study of nurses’ occupational stress. The article series highlights research efforts toward better supporting nurses’ mental health. In this editorial, we discuss the importance of this research in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We review the current stressors faced by nurses and anticipate how nurses’ mental health and well-being will be impacted by COVID-19.

scholarly journals Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connor Joseph Cavanagh ◽  
Tor Arve Benjaminsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Green Economies

Abstract Over the past two decades, political ecologists have provided extensive critiques of the privatization, commodification, and marketization of nature, including of the new forms of accumulation and appropriation that these might facilitate under the more recent guise of green growth and the green economy. These critiques have often demonstrated that such approaches can retain deleterious implications for certain vulnerable populations across the developing world and beyond. With few exceptions, however, political ecologists have paid decidedly less attention to expounding upon alternative initiatives for pursuing both sustainability and socio-environmental justice. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Section engage the concept of the green economy explicitly as a terrain of struggle, one inevitably conditioned by the variegated forms that actually-existing 'green economy' strategies ultimately take in specific historical and geographical conjunctures. In doing so, they highlight the ways in which there is likewise not one but many potential sustainabilities for pursuing human and non-human well-being in the ostensibly nascent Anthropocene, each of which reflects alternative – and, potentially, more progressive – constellations of social, political, and economic relations. Yet they also foreground diverse efforts to pre-empt or to foreclose upon these alternatives, highlighting an implicit politics of precisely whose conception of sustainability is deemed to be possible or desirable in any given time and place. In exploring such struggles over alternative sustainabilities and the 'ecologies of hope' that they implicitly offer, then, this introduction first reviews the current frontiers of these debates, before illuminating how the contributions to this issue both intersect with and build upon them. Key words: Green economy; political ecology; political economy; alternative sustainabilities

Introduction: The dynamics of coupled human and natural systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN G. McPEAK ◽  
DAVID R. LEE ◽  
CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural Systems

This essay introduces a special section of this issue containing a set of papers on the dynamics of coupled human and natural systems. We frame this introduction by setting out some of the major issues confronting researchers who wish to incorporate both economic and biophysical dynamics in their analysis. We contrast the three papers contained in this section in terms of how they respond to these different issues. We conclude that these papers provide important new insights on both how to model and analyze dynamic coupled human and natural systems and how to define policies that will lead to improved human well being and environmental conditions.

Competence, social capital, and life adjustment

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 471-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Pettit ◽  
W. Andrew Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Developmental Transitions ◽  
Longitudinal Methods ◽  
Healthy Functioning ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Behavioral Perspective

In this Introduction, we highlight key themes in the conceptualization and measurement of social capital, drawing attention to its developmental roots, manifestations, and implications for health and well-being across the life course. Longitudinal methods are uniquely suited for charting pathways to and from social capital and for elucidating intermediate and proximal mechanisms that may explain its emergence and its role in healthy functioning. The four empirical articles in the Special Section make use of well-known longitudinal data sets to examine vertical and horizontal dimensions of social capital within and across critical developmental transitions. Collectively, the articles situate the construct of social capital within a behavioral perspective and shed new light on the nature and effectiveness of social relationships in the development of individual competence.

Past and Present Environmental Psychology

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Gärling
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Rebound Effects ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Current Concerns

In my commentary on the papers in this special section of European Psychologist, I note that the focus of past environmental psychology on changing the human environment to increase people’s well-being has in contemporary environmental psychology been replaced by a focus on changing people and their behavior to preserve the human environment. This change is justified by current concerns in society about the ongoing destruction of the human environment. Yet, the change of focus should not lead to neglecting the role of changing the environment for changing people’s behavior. I argue that it may actually be the most effective behavior change tool. I still criticize approaches focusing on single behaviors for frequently being insufficient. I endorse an approach that entails coercive measures implemented after research has established that changing consumption styles harming the environment does not harm people. Such a broader approach would alert researchers to undesirable (in particular indirect) rebound effects. My view on application is that research findings in (environmental) psychology are difficult to communicate to those who should apply them, not because they are irrelevant but because they, by their nature, are qualitative and conditional. Scholars from other disciplines failing to disclose this have an advantage in attracting attention and building trust.

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