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Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy

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Editors:
  1. Junyi Zhang

    1. Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

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  • Presents a series of life-oriented behavioral studies for public policies by linking them with the quality of life mainly in an urban context
  • Provides extensive literature reviews about how interdependent life choices have been captured in different disciplines
  • Introduces new empirical evidence of behavioral interdependencies within and across life domains based on a broad set of life-choice data
  • Illustrates interbehavioral analysis frameworks with respect to various life domains, e.g., migration, job, residence, travel, health, leisure and tourism, and energy consumption

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Life-Oriented Approach

    • Junyi Zhang
    Pages 1-8

  3. Empirical Evidence of Behavioral Interdependencies Across Life Choices

    • Yubing Xiong, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 9-77

  4. Lifestyles and Life Choices

    • Veronique Van Acker
    Pages 79-96

  5. The Car-Dependent Life

    • Junyi Zhang, Masashi Kuwano, Makoto Chikaraishi, Hajime Seya
    Pages 97-122

  6. Household Energy Consumption Behavior

    • Biying Yu, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 123-148

  7. ICT-Dependent Life and Its Impacts on Mobility

    • Giovanni Circella
    Pages 149-173

  8. Health-Related Life Choices

    • David Pérez Barbosa, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 175-204

  9. Life-Oriented Tourism Behavior Research

    • Linghan Zhang, Lingling Wu, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 205-242

  10. Influence of Land Use and Transport Policies on Women’s Labor Participation and Life Choices

    • Yubing Xiong, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 243-265

  11. Mobility of the Elderly

    • Makoto Chikaraishi
    Pages 267-291

  12. Risky Behaviors in Life: A Focus on Young People

    • Ying Jiang, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 293-320

  13. Adaptation of Behavior to Overcome Natural Disasters

    • Qing Chang Lu, Junyi Zhang, Lingling Wu, A. B. M. Sertajur Rahman
    Pages 321-383

  14. Mobility Biographies and Mobility Socialisation—New Approaches to an Old Research Field

    • Joachim Scheiner
    Pages 385-401

  15. Biographical Interactions Over the Life Course: Car Ownership, Residential Choice, Household Structure, and Employment/Education

    • Biying Yu, Junyi Zhang
    Pages 403-421

  16. Household Time Use Behavior Analysis: A Case Study of Multidimensional Timing Decisions

    • Junyi Zhang, Harry Timmermans
    Pages 423-450

  17. Models of Behavioral Change and Adaptation

    • Soora Rasouli, Harry Timmermans
    Pages 451-477

  18. Behavioral Changes in Migration Associated with Jobs, Residences, and Family Life

    • Junyi Zhang, Yubing Xiong, Ying Jiang, Nobuhito Tanaka, Nobuaki Ohmori, Ayako Taniguchi
    Pages 479-505

  19. Future Perspectives of the Life-Oriented Approach

    • Junyi Zhang
    Pages 507-518
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About this book

This book presents a life-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary methodology proposed for cross-sectoral urban policy decisions such as transport, health, and energy policies. Improving people’s quality of life (QOL) is one of the common goals of various urban policies on the one hand, while QOL is closely linked with a variety of life choices on the other. The life-oriented approach argues that life choices in different domains (e.g., residence, neighborhood, health, education, work, family life, leisure and recreation, finance, and travel behavior) are not independent of one another, and ignorance of and inability to understand interdependent life choices may result in a failure of consensus building for policy decisions. The book provides evidence about behavioral interdependencies among life domains based on both extensive literature reviews and case studies covering a broad set of life choices. This work further illustrates interbehavioral analysis frameworks with respect to various life domains, along with a rich set of future research directions. This book deals with life choices in a relatively general way. Thus, it can serve not only as a reference for research, but also as a textbook for teaching and learning in varied behavior-related disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

    Junyi Zhang

About the editor

Prof. Junyi Zhang’s main research interests are in the fields of urban and regional planning, transportation planning, traffic engineering, human behavior survey and modeling, tourism policy, environment and energy policy. As of October 2016, he published more than 360 peer-reviewed papers especially from the interdisciplinary perspective. He has been serving as an editorial board member in more than 10 internationally well-recognized journals and as a reviewer for nearly 40 famous international journals.

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