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Well-Being, Sustainability and Social Development : The Netherlands 1850-2050.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lintsen, Harry.
Other Authors: Veraart, Frank., Smits, Jan-Pieter., Grin, John.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Colophon
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Graphs
  • List of Tables
  • Prologue: Well-being and Sustainability in a Long-Term Perspective
  • Chapter 1: Well-being and Sustainability: Measurement System and Institutional Framework
  • 1.1 Toward a Better Understanding of Well-being
  • 1.2 Why Study Well-being and Sustainability in a Historical Perspective?
  • 1.3 The Dutch Case
  • 1.4 New Perspectives on Growth and Measurement
  • 1.5 Research Methodology in Brief
  • 1.6 The Measurement Framework for Well-being and Sustainability
  • 1.6.1 Brundtland Definition
  • 1.6.2 Well-being 'Here and Now'
  • 1.6.3 'Here and Now' Versus 'Later'
  • 1.6.4 'Here and Now' Versus 'Elsewhere'
  • 1.6.5 The Measurement Framework of Well-being and Sustainability (the CES Recommendations)
  • 1.7 Natural Capital and the Three Material Flows
  • 1.8 Institutions and Dynamics
  • Literature
  • Chapter 2: The Great Transformation and the Questions
  • 2.1 A Landscape of Horrors
  • 2.2 The Netherlands Around 1850
  • 2.3 Well-being 'Here and Now': 1850 Versus 2010
  • 2.4 Well-being 'Later': 1850 Versus 2010
  • 2.5 Well-being 'Elsewhere': 1850 Versus 2010
  • 2.6 Natural Capital: 1850 Versus 2010
  • 2.7 The Great Transformation, the Tradeoff and the Fundamental Questions
  • 2.8 The Structure of This Book
  • Literature
  • Well-being and Sustainability Around 1850: A Search for a Frame of Reference
  • Chapter 3: Natural Capital, Material Flows, the Landscape and the Economy
  • 3.1 Recalcitrant Sand Grounds
  • 3.2 Natural Capital: Water, Air and Soil
  • 3.3 Agriculture and Nutrition: Organic Raw Materials
  • 3.3.1 Mixed Farming on the Sand Grounds
  • 3.3.2 Grassland Farming in the Low-Lying Peat Marshes
  • 3.3.3 Regional Variaty
  • 3.3.4 Market Orientation
  • 3.3.5 Food Supply.
  • 3.4 Building Materials and Construction: Mineral Resources
  • 3.5 Energy: Fossil Fuels
  • 3.6 Natural Capital and Material Flows
  • 3.7 A Variegated Landscape
  • 3.7.1 Biodiversity
  • 3.7.2 The Sand Grounds
  • 3.7.3 The Maritime Zones
  • 3.7.4 The Lost Forest
  • 3.7.5 Prosperous Farming Landscape
  • 3.8 A growing Economy, a Growing Population
  • Literature
  • Chapter 4: Quality of Life: A Poor and Vulnerable People
  • 4.1 'How Can We Combat Pauperism?'
  • 4.2 Poverty in the Netherlands
  • 4.2.1 The Scope of Poverty
  • 4.2.2 The Perception of the Poverty Question
  • 4.2.3 Poverty in the City and in the Countryside
  • 4.3 Cold, Heat and Storm
  • 4.4 The Vulnerable Dutch Delta
  • 4.5 Organic Waste As the Biggest Environmental Problem
  • 4.6 Poverty, Vulnerability and Sustainability
  • Literature
  • Chapter 5: Stagnation and Dynamism in Three Supply Chains: Agriculture and Foods, Building Materials and Construction, Energy
  • 5.1 The Conspiracy
  • 5.2 Agriculture and Foods: More of the Same
  • 5.3 Building Materials and Construction: King and State
  • 5.3.1 Public Housing and Public Health
  • 5.3.2 Water Management
  • 5.3.3 Infrastructure
  • 5.4 Energy: Coal and Steam
  • Literature
  • Chapter 6: Well-being and Sustainability Around 1850: The Frame of Reference
  • 6.1 The Society of Benevolence
  • 6.2 Deficient Dynamism: Citizens, Government, Entrepreneurs and Researchers
  • 6.2.1 'Civil Society'
  • 6.2.2 King and State
  • 6.2.3 Economy and Trade
  • 6.2.4 Technology and Science
  • 6.3 The Monitor of 1850
  • 6.3.1 Well-being 'Here and Now'
  • 6.3.2 Well-being 'Later'
  • 6.3.3 Well-being 'Elsewhere'
  • Literature
  • Part I: The Great Transformation 1850-1910
  • Chapter 7: The Point of Departure Around 1850: The Turn of the Tide
  • 7.1 Interpreter of Freedom
  • 7.2 The Reforms
  • 7.2.1 Thorbecke
  • 7.2.2 Looking for a New Political Culture.
  • 7.2.3 The Promise of Technology
  • 7.3 Well-being 'Here and Now': Less Extreme Poverty, 1850 Versus 1910
  • 7.4 Well-being 'Later': An Economy Under Steam, 1850 Versus 1910
  • 7.5 Well-being 'Elsewhere': Colonial Profit, 1850 Versus 1910
  • 7.6 Natural Capital and Material Flows, 1850 Versus 1910
  • Literature
  • Chapter 8: Agriculture and Nutrition: The Food Revolution
  • 8.1 The First Flour and Bread Factory
  • 8.2 The Modernisation of Agriculture
  • 8.2.1 Prosperity, Crisis and Innovations
  • 8.2.2 Artificial Fertiliser and the End of the Closed Chain
  • 8.2.3 The Landscape and the End of the 'Common' Lands
  • 8.2.4 Small Farms and the Cooperative Movement
  • 8.3 The Modernisation of the Food Processing Industry
  • 8.4 Food Quantity and Food Quality
  • Literature
  • Chapter 9: Building Materials and Construction: The Four Building Challenges
  • 9.1 The Filthy Hole
  • 9.2 Working on a Hygienic City
  • 9.3 Striving for Public Housing
  • 9.4 The Improvement of the Rivers
  • 9.5 The Infrastructural Revolution
  • 9.6 The Balance
  • Literature
  • Chapter 10: Energy: A Revolution with Steam
  • 10.1 36 h Lugging Warm Stearin Around
  • 10.2 Finally an Industrial Nation and a Decline of Extreme Poverty
  • 10.3 Steam for Big and Small
  • 10.4 Coal and Steam as Nuisance
  • 10.5 A Velvet Revolution
  • Literature
  • Chapter 11: From Extreme Poverty to the Social Question. Well-being and Sustainability Around 1910
  • 11.1 'The Material and Spiritual Side of the Social Question'
  • 11.2 Building a New Corporatism: Citizens, Government, Entrepreneurs and Researchers
  • 11.2.1 A New, Dynamic, Civil Society
  • 11.2.2 The Birth of the Welfare State
  • 11.2.3 The Emergence of a Modern Economy
  • 11.2.4 The Foundations of a Modern Knowledge Infrastructure
  • 11.3 The Monitor of 1910: Well-being and Sustainability from Three Perspectives.
  • 11.3.1 Perspective 1850: An Enticing Paradise
  • 11.3.2 Perspective 1910: The New Agenda of the Turn of the Century
  • 11.3.3 Present-Day Perspective: Related and Deviant Values
  • Literature
  • Part II: New Problems 1910-1970
  • Chapter 12: The Situation Around 1910: A New Order
  • 12.1 1918 - The Counter-Revolutionary Breakthrough
  • 12.2 Well-being 'Here and Now': A Life longer and Happier, 1910 Versus 1970
  • 12.3 Well-being 'Later': Materials and Energy for a Better Future, 1910 Versus 1970
  • 12.4 Well-being 'Elsewhere': From Colonial to Global Trade, 1910 Versus 1970
  • 12.5 Natural Capital and Material Flows 1913 Versus 1970
  • Literature
  • Chapter 13: Agriculture and Nutrition: The End of Hunger
  • 13.1 Ode to Winter
  • 13.2 The Transformation of the Landscape
  • 13.2.1 Reclamations
  • 13.2.2 Land Consolidation
  • 13.3 The Modern Farm and the Environment
  • 13.3.1 Artificial Fertiliser
  • 13.3.2 Crop Protection
  • 13.4 Foods and Nutritional Patterns
  • 13.4.1 Food Quality: Commodities Law, Trademarks and the Modern Housewife
  • 13.4.2 International Food Supply Chains
  • 13.4.3 Healthy Nutrition and Excess
  • 13.5 New Food Chains, New Problems
  • Literature
  • Chapter 14: Building Materials and Construction: Constructing a Quality of Life
  • 14.1 Could the Flood Disaster Have Been Prevented?
  • 14.2 Well-being, Vulnerability and Liveability
  • 14.2.1 Safe Behind the Dikes
  • 14.2.2 New Roads and the Unification of the Netherlands
  • 14.3 Living and Quality of Life in the City
  • 14.3.1 The Housing Law and Housing Construction
  • 14.3.2 Expanding Cities 1900-1970
  • 14.4 The Demand for Building Supplies and Construction Materials
  • 14.4.1 Wood Production and Resources from Foreign Forests
  • 14.4.2 Steel and Cement: Vacillating Support for Basic Industries
  • 14.4.3 Gravel Pits and Marl Quarries, What Is Lost?.
  • 14.5 The State, Construction and Well-being
  • Literature
  • Chapter 15: Energy and Plastics: Toward a Fossil Land of Milk and Honey
  • 15.1 Working on a National Energy Supply
  • 15.1.1 Vulnerable Energy Supplies and Public Welfare
  • 15.1.2 Domestic Coal Production
  • 15.1.3 The End of Domestic Coal
  • 15.1.4 A Warm House
  • 15.1.5 Natural Gas to Spare
  • 15.2 Wellfare with Plastics
  • 15.2.1 The Netherlands as Leader
  • 15.2.2 The Plastics Revolution
  • 15.2.3 Symbol of the Linear Economy
  • 15.3 Dark Clouds Gather Above Well-being and the Human Environment
  • 15.3.1 The 'Super Pipe'
  • 15.3.2 Polluted Air as a Nuisance
  • 15.3.3 A National Monitoring Network for Air Pollution
  • 15.3.4 The Overture to New Sustainability Problems
  • Literature
  • Chapter 16: The Turn of the Tide. Well-being and Sustainability Around 1970
  • 16.1 Aldrin, Dieldrin, Eldrin en Telodrin: Blessing or a Shady Business?
  • 16.2 Synergetic Dynamics: Government, Citizens, Researchers and Entrepreneurs
  • 16.2.1 Government - Makeable Well-being
  • 16.2.2 The Exalted 'Mid-Field'
  • 16.2.3 Research for Well-being
  • 16.2.4 The Linear Economy
  • 16.3 The Monitor for 1970: Development of Well-being and Sustainability
  • 16.3.1 Perspective 1910: The Agenda at the Turn of the Century
  • 16.3.2 Perspective 1970: Environmental Problems in New Babylon
  • 16.3.3 The View from 2015-1970 as a Critical Watershed
  • 16.3.4 The 1960s as the Great Transformation
  • Literature
  • Part III: The Great Turnabout 1970-2010
  • Chapter 17: The Point of Departure Around 1970: Overabundance and Discontent
  • 17.1 The Mushroom of the New Society
  • 17.2 Well-being 'Here and Now': Transition to a Postmodern Society, 1970 Versus 2010
  • 17.3 Well-being 'Later': Material Growth in a Cleverer and Cleaner Country, 1970 Versus 2010.
  • 17.4 Well-being 'Elsewhere': An International Trading Power, 1970 Versus 2010.

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