Psychological wellbeing and sustainable development of coastal community: a literature review

Abstract

Nowadays wellbeing has been closely related to development. The knot was tied in the Sustainable Development Goals. Wellbeing has been acknowledged as the third goals that need to be achieve by all of the member state. Countries need to assure that they provide good health and wellbeing to its people including for the coastal communities. Albeit the important role of wellbeing on sustainable development is recognize, however the relationship between psychological wellbeing and sustainable development between coastal communities is not widely explore. Therefore, aim of this study is to analyse the link between psychological wellbeing and sustainable development of coastal communities using literature review method to assess what has been found in previous study that link psychological wellbeing and sustainable development in the context of coastal communities and what things that need to improve in the future to advance the understanding of the relationship between psychological wellbeing and sustainable development. It is found that the study of the relationship between psychological wellbeing and sustainable development of coastal communities is still limited. Furthermore, psychological wellbeing is still not yet considered in the development of coastal community measurement. Therefore, psychological wellbeing should be integrated in sustainable development of coastal community measurement tool.