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Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World

Advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Glatzer

    1. Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  2. Susanne Below

    1. Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  3. Matthias Stoffregen

    1. Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 24)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-1
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  2. Challenges for Quality of Life

    1. Challenges for Quality of Life

      • Wolfgang Glatzer
      Pages 3-9

  3. Goal Discussions on Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Social Quality and Quality of Life

      • Alan Walker, Laurent van der Maesen
      Pages 13-31

    3. Bringing Together the Concepts of Quality of Life and Sustainability

      • Martina Schäfer, Benjamin Nölting, Lydia Illge
      Pages 33-43

    4. Subjective Measures of Well-Being in Developing Countries

      • Laura Camfield
      Pages 45-59

    5. Towards Enhancing the Quality of Life in Africa

      • Patrick A. Edewor
      Pages 61-72

  4. Monitoring Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. World Database of Happiness

      • Ruut Veenhoven
      Pages 75-89

    3. Comparative Survey Questions on Quality of Life: The “Dynamic Information Centre”

      • Michaela Hudler-Seitzberger
      Pages 91-105

    4. An Evidence-Based Approach to the Construction of Summary Quality-of-Life Indices

      • Kenneth C. Land
      Pages 107-124

    5. The Social State of the Netherlands

      • Jeroen Boelhouwer, Theo Roes
      Pages 125-138

    6. Biographical Analysis of Quality of Life Processes in Migration

      • Maria Kontos
      Pages 139-149

  5. Economic Challenges for Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Monetary Stability and Quality of Life

      • Heinz Herrmann
      Pages 153-164

    3. Segmented Quality of Working Life

      • Byoung-Hoon Lee, Yoo-Sun Kim
      Pages 165-178

    4. Does Happiness Pay?

      • Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, Sandip Sukhtankar
      Pages 179-204

  6. Cultural Challenges for Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Happiness as an Expression of Freedom and Self-Determination

      • Max Haller, Markus Hadler
      Pages 207-231

    3. Satisfaction with Life Domains and Salient Values for the Future

      • Ferran Casas, Cristina Figuer, Mònica González, Germà Coenders
      Pages 233-247
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About this book

Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the Interna­ tional Society for Quality of Life Studies. The first part of this introductory article is concerned with a general assessment of contemporary quality of life research. At present, the concept of quality of life is a kind of umbrella which keeps together a reasonable number of international social scientists who have similar research interests. The second part of the introduction describes the topics of this book: The five chapters are concerned with the societal goal discussion on quality of life, the scientific monitoring of quality of life, the economic challenges for quality of life, its cultural challenges, and finally the options and restrictions for improving quality of life. Altogether, the contributions are related to present interna­ tional investigations and discussions of basic questions of quality of life. ATTENTION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus at the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies. There are new threats and new prospects for the quality of life in each generation, and securing and improving quality of life is a never-ending task.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Wolfgang Glatzer, Susanne Below, Matthias Stoffregen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World

  • Book Subtitle: Advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research

  • Editors: Wolfgang Glatzer, Susanne Below, Matthias Stoffregen

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2903-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2890-8Published: 27 October 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6741-8Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2903-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 368

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Quality of Life Research, Political Science, Sociology, general

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