Global Handbook of Quality of Life : Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents / edited by Wolfgang Glatzer, Laura Camfield, Valerie Møller, Mariano Rojas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glatzer, Wolfgang, Editor.

Camfield, Laura, Editor.

Møller, Valerie, Editor.

Rojas, Mariano, Editor.

Series:

International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, 2468-7235

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quality of life.

Economic development.

Quality of Life Research.

Economic Growth.

Local Subjects:

Quality of Life Research.

Economic Growth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (878 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings, and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of topics, the handbook examines discussions of demographic and health development, the spread of democracy, global economic accounting, multi-item measurement of perceived satisfaction and expert-assessed quality of life, and the well-being of children, women and poor people. It looks at well-being in specific regions, including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to contributions by leading and younger authors, the handbook includes contributions from International Organizations about their own work with respect to social reporting.

Contents:

Foreword; Alex C. Michalos and Wolfgang Zapf

Chapter 1. Monitoring and Analyzing Global Quality of Life: An Introduction

Part I. Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy

Chapter 2. Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run; Frank Swiaczny

Chapter 3. Living Standards in a Modernizing World: A Long Run Perspective on Material Well-Being and Human Development; Herman de Jong

Chapter 4. Wars and Violence through the Centuries; Mathias Boes and Hinrich Rosenbrock

Chapter 5. The Worldwide Spread of Democracy; Robert K. Schaeffer

Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Objective Approaches

Chapter 6. Global Economic Accounting and its Critics; Jürgen Faik

Chapter 7. The human Development Index; Kenneth C. Land

Chapter 8. The Index of Social Progress; Richard J. Estes

Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Subjective Approaches

Chapter 9. The Overall Satisfaction with Life; Ruut Veenhoven

Chapter 10. Multi-Item Measurement of Subjective Well-Being; Robert A. Cummins and Melissa K. Weinberg

Chapter 11. The Affect Balance Scale; Norman Bradburn

Part III. Socio-Economic Structures of Well-Being

Chapter 12. Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence; Richard A. Easterlin

Chapter 13. Well-Being and Sustainable Consumption; Monica Guillen and Harold Langford Wilhite

Chapter 14. Poverty and People’s Well-Being; Mariano Rojas

Chapter 15. Well-Being and the Labor Market from a Global View: It’s not just the Money; Duncan Campbell and Roger Magi Gomis Porquet

Chapter 16. The Contributiion of Unpaid Work to Global Well-Being; Maria-Angeles Duran

Chapter 17. Welfare Production and Quality of Life; Michael Dauderstädt

Part IV. Social Structures of Well-Being

Chapter 18. Living Alone and Living Together: Their Significance for Well-Being; Liz Eckermann

Chapter 19. Worldwide View of Child Well-Being; Vicki L. Lamb and KennethC. Land

Chapter 20. Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life; Fermina Roja-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas and Vivente Rodriguez-Rodriguez

Chapter 21. Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context; David Bartram

Part V. Well-Being in Nations and at Continents

Chapter 22. Quality of Life and Well-Being in North-Africa: Algeria, Eqypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia; Habib Tiliouine

Chapter 23. Shadow of the Sun: The Distribution of Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benjamin J. Roberts, Steven L. Gordon, Valerie Møller and Jarè Struwig

Chapter 24. Well-Being in Canada; Simon Langlois

Chapter 25. Quality of Life in the United States; Rhonda Philips

Chapter 26. Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited: 1984-2012; Martin Tetaz, Pablo Schiaffino and Miguel Braun

Chapter 27. Multiple Modes of Well-Being in Asia; Takashi Inoguchi

Chapter 28. The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia; Melissa K. Weinberg and Robert A. Cummins

Chapter29. An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe; Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois and Erika Mezger

Chapter 30. Well-Being in Slovakia; Jozef Džuka

Chapter 31. From Dissonance to Wellbeing and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades; Christian Suter, Katia Iglesias and Jehane Moussa

Chapter 32. Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic; Birgir Poppel

Part VI. Social Reporting on Well-Being in Supranational Organizations

Chapter 33. Well-Being and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD; Romina Boarini

Chapter 34. The World Health Organization: The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe; Claudia Stein and Ritu Sadana

Chapter 35. Social Reporting of the European Union: Description of the Organization; Marleen De Smedt

Chapter 36. Well-Being for All – The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe; Gilda Farell

Part VII. Basic Dimensions of Global Well-Being

Chapter 37. Assessing the Subjective Wellbeing of Nations; Filomena Maggino

Chapter 38. Cultural Construal of Wellbeing: Theories and Empirical Evidence; Yukiko Uchida, Yuji Ogihara and Shintaro Fukushima

Chapter 39. Satisfaction and Happiness: The Bright Side of Quality of Life; Louis Tay, Lauren Kuykendall and Ed Diener

Chapter 40. Worries and Pain: The Dark Side of Quality of Life; Wolfgang Glatzer

Chapter 41. Hopes and Fears: Future Views of Quality of Life; Jennifer Gulyas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-017-9178-3