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

• Author: Lintsen, Harry.
• TeilnehmendeR: Veraart, Frank.; Smits, Jan-Pieter.; Grin, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (586 pages)

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.