Overview
- Presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over a 50 year period beginning with 1970
- Provides a comprehensive, cross-sectoral, approach to the analysis of development trends occuring within nations, regions, and the world-as-a-whole
- Serves as a valuable resource for persons in positions of authority related to public policy formulation and implementation across ten sectors of quality of life and well-being concerns
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 78)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Part VII
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Back Matter
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Keywords
- Advancing Quality of Life and Well-Being
- Human Development Index
- Health and Education
- Methodology of Well-Being Data
- Population Groups and Well-Being
- Population Groups and Global Social Progress
- Quality of Life and Well-Being
- Social Development Theory
- Weighted Index of Social Progress
- Well-Being from a Global Perspective
- Well-Being from a Regional Perspective
- Well-Being from a National Perspective
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Estes has been the recipient of many awards and grants for his research on international social work and comparative social development including two Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Awards (Iran, 1978 and Norway, 1979) and a Fulbright Scholar Award to Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (1994). In 1992, he was elected “Social Worker of the Year” by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers for his international activities. In 1996 he received the Alumni Recognition Award from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Social Work. In 1997 he was awarded the Distinguished Recent Contribution to Social Work Education Award by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the “Best Article in Social Indicators Research Award" of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS). In 2002 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar of United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served as an External Examiner for the University’s Department of Social Work until 2008. In 2005, the Global Commission of the Council on Social Work Education awarded Dr. Estes its Partner in International Education Award. In 2007, Dr. Estes received the Distinguished Quality of Life Research Award of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) and, during winter, 2012, he spent three months as University Distinguished Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and two weeks at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Progress of Nations Revisited, 1970–2020
Book Subtitle: 50 Years of Development Challenges and Accomplishments
Authors: Richard J. Estes
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15907-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15906-1Published: 08 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15909-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15907-8Published: 30 July 2019
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Development Studies, Social/Human Development Studies