Overview
- Provides the foundation for a new multidisciplinary field
- Examines spatial and geographical aspects of subjective well-being
- Combines perspectives from positive psychology with subjective well-being, regional science, and economics
Part of the book series: Contributions to Regional Science (CRR)
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This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being. By integrating spatial and geostatistical methods, it sheds new light on the spatial and geographical aspects of subjective well-being. Geographical analysis allows us to measure spatial and regional discrepancies in subjective well-being and to identify heterogeneous profiles in terms of social, economic and environmental patterns. Consequently, the papers gathered here address various topics concerning the spatial aspects of subjective well-being, including social injustice, age, new urban spaces, and tourism.
The book proposes a multidisciplinary approach and is intended for scholars and students in the fields of geography, economics and the spatial sciences. By examining several critical dimensions of happiness and subjective well-being, it enriches the complexity of regional decision-making on the path toward happier and more liveable societies.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Eric Vaz is a tenured Professor at Ryerson University, Canada. He serves as the President of the Canadian Regional Science Association. His research chiefly focuses on the interaction of regional science with geographic analysis in the Anthropocene.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geography of Happiness
Book Subtitle: A Spatial Analysis of Subjective Well-Being
Editors: Eric Vaz
Series Title: Contributions to Regional Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19871-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19870-0Published: 21 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19873-1Published: 22 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19871-7Published: 20 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 176
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Quality of Life Research