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A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos

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Editors:
  1. Filomena Maggino

    1. Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" (DiSIA), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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  • Dedicated to the founder of the field of social indicators
  • Contains a collection of essays dedicated to social indicators research and quality of life studies
  • Covers a variety of topics and thought-pieces from renowned scholars in the field quality of life studies

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 60)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  4. Monitoring Through Indicators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Global Change and Quality of Life Indicators

      • Richard J. Estes
      Pages 173-193

    3. The Spread of Social Indicators- and Quality of Life-Research in Germany and Europe: An Overview in Honour of Alex Michalos

      • Wolfgang Glatzer, Wolfgang Zapf
      Pages 195-207

    4. Challenges, Needs and Risks in Defining Wellbeing Indicators

      • Filomena Maggino
      Pages 209-233

  5. Territories and Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Quality of Life Research in Asia

      • Takashi Inoguchi
      Pages 237-269

    3. South African Perceptions of the Good Life Twenty Years into Democracy

      • Valerie Møller
      Pages 271-295
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About this book

This Festschrift is published in honor of Alex C. Michalos, a great scholar and inspiration to many upcoming and famous academics and practitioners. The Festschrift celebrates his lifelong, outstanding scientific and cultural contribution to Quality of Life Research. It contains contributions written by the most prestigious and renowned scholars in the field of social indicators research and quality of life studies. Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos’ stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti" (DiSIA), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

About the editor

Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Florence (Italy). She has a wide experience in survey design and analysis, with focus on questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Life Devoted to Quality of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos

  • Editors: Filomena Maggino

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20567-0Published: 29 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35827-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20568-7Published: 20 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 327

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research

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