Overview
- Addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community
- Reflects the broad interdisciplinary nature of quality of life assessment and research
- Represents community and national level work with international best practices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being (CQLWB)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Community Well-Being: General Considerations
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Comparisons in Community Well-Being: Australia, Mexico and South Africa
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Place Based Satisfaction and Happiness
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Work Place Satisfaction, Happiness and Well-Being
Keywords
- Indicators of Community Enrichment and Well-Being
- Community Well-Being and Quality of Life
- Comparisons in Community Well-Being
- Applying the International Wellbeing Index in South Africa
- Satisfaction and Happiness
- Residential Satisfaction in Shrinking Cities of Portugal
- Happiness and Choice Behavior of Immigrants
- Sustainability and Community Well-Being
- Work Place Satisfaction
- International Society for Quality of Life Studies
- Quality of Life in Modern Society
- Happiness and Migration
- Cross-Cultural Influences to Architecture and Planning
- Community Well-Being in the US
- Community Well-Being in Europe
- Community Well-Being from African Perspectives
About this book
This volume addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community. It aggregates the perspectives, research questions, methods and results that consider how quality of life is influenced in our modern society. Chapters in this volume present theoretical and practical examples on different aspects of quality of life and community well-being representing American, European, Native American and African perspectives. This volume is of interest to scholars in sociology, psychology, economy, philosophy, health research as well as practitioners across the social sciences.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Scott Cloutier is an Assistant Professor, Walton Sustainability Fellow and Senior Sustainability Scholar within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. He is focused on charting a new course for sustainability to maximize opportunities for happiness. Scott’s experience and expanding research agenda revolve around three key elements: (1) Sustainable Urban/Neighborhood Development research designed to integrate community development subsystems (e.g. water, waste, energy, transportation, business and economic development) to maximize community well-being through sustainable interventions; (2) Qualitative and Quantitative Mixed Method research designed to explore and reflect human/built-and-natural-environment/sustainability connections from both subjective and objective perspectives; and (3) Theoretical Processes research around constructs of quality of life, community well-being, subjective well-being (happiness), hedonia, eudaimonia and biological underpinnings.
Dr. Craig Talmage serves as a visiting assistant professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Entrepreneurial Studies is a new fast growing minor that officially started in the Spring of 2016. He teaches courses on economic principles, quantitative tools, social innovation, the history of entrepreneurship theory, and the senior capstone experience. He seeks to empower community members, faculty, staff and students through the development of knowledge regarding entrepreneurship and skills that match that knowledge. He completed his PhD in Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University (ASU). At ASU, he worked for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Partnership for Community Development, and the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center. He still serves as a faculty associate for Arizona State University where he teaches Community Resilience to Emergency Management and Homeland Security students in the School of Public Affairs. He is actively involved in the Community Development Society, the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Dimensions in Community Well-Being
Editors: Patsy Kraeger, Scott Cloutier, Craig Talmage
Series Title: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55408-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55407-5Published: 26 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85652-0Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55408-2Published: 15 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2520-1093
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1107
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Community and Environmental Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Positive Psychology, Migration