Handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment / edited by David Maddison (professor of economics, University of Birmingham, UK), Katrin Rehdanz (professor of economics, Kiel University) and Heinz Welsch (professor emeritus of economics, University of Oldenburg, Germany).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maddison, David, editor.

Rehdanz, Katrin, editor.

Welsch, Heinz, 1955- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Psychological aspects.

Nature.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Foreword by Andrew Oswald

Introduction to the handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment / David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch

Part I: Social sciences, happiness and the environment

1. Economics, wellbeing and happiness: a historical perspective / Luigino Bruni

2. World database of happiness: a 'findings archive' / Ruut Veenhoven

3. Spatial variation in life satisfaction: a happiness puzzle / Mona Ahmadiani, Finbarr Brereton, Susana Ferreira and Mirko Moro

4. Happiness and environmental economics / Heinz Welsch

5. Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: an environmental social sciences approach / Jianjun Tang, Honghao Ren and Henk Folmer

Part II: Case studies on happiness and the environment

6. Cross-country variations in subjective wellbeing explained by the climate / David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz

7. Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfall extremes in the United Kingdom / Michael Berlemann, Judith Regner and Jascha Tutt

8. Happiness and forest-attacking invasive alien species / Benjamin A. Jones

9. Happiness and air pollution / Arik Levinson

10. The effects of exposure to air pollution on subjective wellbeing in China / Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

11. Noise and subjective wellbeing / Daniel Fujiwara and Ricky N. Lawton

12. Measuring the wellbeing and health impacts of sewage odour / Daniel Fujiwara, Iulian Gramatki and Kieran Keohane

13. The effect of green areas on life satisfaction: a comparison of subjective and objective measures / Teresa Ruckelshau

14. Mappiness: natural environments and in-the-moment happiness / George MacKerron and Susana Mourato

15. Legacy effects and individual heterogeneity in the relationship between health and wellbeing / Peter Howley

16. Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonic price data: the case of wind turbines / Christian Krekel

17. Happiness and energy supply / Heinz Welsch

18. Green with satisfaction: the relationship between pro-environmental behaviours and subjective wellbeing / Kate Laffan

19. Happiness and green lifestyle / Heinz Welsch

20. How environmental ethics affect the consumption-wellbeing relationship: evidence from Japan / Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi

21. An empirical assessment of the indigenous sumak kawsay

(living well): the importance of nature and relationships / Carmen Amelia Coral-Guerrero, Jorge Guardiola and Fernando Garc.a-Quero

22. Mother earth and household welfare functions of first nations peoples of Canada / Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng

Part III: Conclusion

23 happiness in retrospect and prospect / Bruno S. Frey

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.

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ISBN:

1788119347

9781788119344

Publisher Number:

99986033992

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