Editors:
- Provides a guide to the current field of global well-being and to future research
- Presents clues to complex problems and empirical materials
- Leads to more comprehensive picture of global quality of life and well-being than we had before
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life (IHQL)
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy
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Front Matter
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Monitoring Global Wellbeing: Objective and Subjective Measurement
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Affect Balance Scale (ABS)
- Analyzing Global Quality of Life
- Argentina´s Economic Development
- Child Well-Being
- Composite Social Indicator
- Demographic and Health Development
- Early Growth Paradox
- Global Demographic Change
- Global Development Trends
- Global Diversity and Inequality
- Global Social Change and Social Movements
- Global Well-Being and Unpaid Work
- Happiness and Economic Growth
- Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
- Happiness and Migration
- Happiness and Poverty
- Human Development Index
- Material Well-Being and Human Development
- Measurement of Subjective Wellbeing
- Political Development
- Positive Mental Health
- Positive and Negative Well-Being
- Quality of Life Research
- Quality of Life and Wellbeing in North Africa
- Quality of Life in the United States
- Subjective Well-Being
- System of National Accounting
- The Spread of Democracy
- War, Violence and Well-Being
- Welfare and Quality of Life
- Well-Being and Ageing
- Well-Being and Behavioral Economics
- Well-Being and Ecological Sustainability
- Well-Being and Relationship Formation
- Well-Being in Canada
- Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Wellbeing in Asia
- World Social Development
Editors and Affiliations
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Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Wolfgang Glatzer
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University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
Laura Camfield
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Rhodes University Inst. Social & Economic Research, Grahamstown, South Africa
Valerie Møller
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FLACSO-Mexico & UPAEP, Mexico City, Mexico
Mariano Rojas
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Handbook of Quality of Life
Book Subtitle: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents
Editors: Wolfgang Glatzer, Laura Camfield, Valerie Møller, Mariano Rojas
Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9177-9Published: 03 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7796-4Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9178-6Published: 22 January 2015
Series ISSN: 2468-7227
Series E-ISSN: 2468-7235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 894
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Economic Growth