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Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

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Editors:
  1. Richard J. Estes

    1. University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, Philadelphia

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  • Tackles some of the most fundamental themes that challenge life quality throughout the world: globalization, population mobility, the political transformation of an increasingly larger number of societies toward democracies
  • Lends itself to use as a supplementary text in many social science courses (sociology, international development, political science, etc.)

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 29)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Regional and National Perspectives on Advancing Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. How Does European Union Enlargement Affect Social Cohesion?

      • Wolfgang Keck, Peter Krause
      Pages 3-24

    3. Promoting Well-Being: A British Perspective

      • Beverley A. Searle
      Pages 25-40

    4. Importance and Satisfaction With Life Domains in Croatia: Representative Sample

      • Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovcan, Zvjezdana Prizmic-Larsen
      Pages 41-52

  4. Advancing Quality of Life for Selected Population Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-152
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    2. Communitarian versus Individualistic Arrangements in the Family: What and Whose Income Matters for Happiness?

      • Mariano Rojas
      Pages 153-168

    3. Socioeconomic Inequality and Inequalities in Health Among Kibbutz Elderly

      • Uriel Leviatan, Chagit Salm
      Pages 169-190

    4. Life Satisfaction Crossover Among Couples

      • Melvin Prince, Chris Manolis, Randi Minetor
      Pages 191-208

    5. Migrant Family Adaptation and Quality of Life: A Qualitative Study in Brazil

      • Cynthia Harr
      Pages 209-220

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 221-225
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Environmentalissuescontinuedtoloomlargeinthelastdecadeofthetwentiethc- tury,especiallyenvironmentalproblemsrelatedtorisinglevelsofCO emissionsand 2 other greenhouse gases on the planet’s average temperatures and, subsequently, storm patterns. Floods and droughts, in combination with unseasonably high and low temperatures became the norm rather than the exception for large expanses of Africa,Asia and Oceania. Even large areas of Europe and NorthAmerica were s- jected to recurrent floods and droughts and experienced unseasonable extremes of hot and cold temperatures associated with man-made intrusions into the natural environment. And,still,aglobalplanofactiontohaltman-relatedpatternsofdef- estation, desertification, and over-fishing of the seas has yet to come into being. At the same time, the number of regional conflicts and civil wars increased and, with them, the lives of many women, children, old people and other n- combatants were lost in these conflicts. Increasingly, regional wars and conflicts had less to do with disputes over land or other natural resources but more with the differing social, political and religious identifications of the people engaged in these conflicts. Warnings of genocide and near-genocide conditions were commonly proclaimed to the world community but, sadly, the planet’s inter- tional security apparatus proved to be largely ineffective in containing many of the worst of these atrocities. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people, ev- tually millions, died while awaiting assistance from the global community to bring an end to their suffering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, Philadelphia

    Richard J. Estes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

  • Editors: Richard J. Estes

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5110-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5099-2Published: 23 November 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7283-2Published: 25 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5110-4Published: 07 January 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 228

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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