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Foreword; Alex C. Michalos and Wolfgang Zapf.- Chapter 1. Monitoring and Analyzing Global Quality of Life: An Introdution.- Part I. Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy.- Chapter 2. Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run; Frank Swiaczny.- Chapter 3. Living Standards in a Modernizing World: A Long Run Perspective on Material Well-Being and Human Development; Herman de Jong.- Chapter 4. Wars and Violence through the Centuries; Mathias Boes and Hinrich Rosenbrock.- Chapter 5. The Worldwide Spread of Democracy; Robert K. Schaeffer.- Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Objective Approaches.- Chapter 6. Global Economic Accounting and its Critics; Jürgen Faik.- Chapter 7. The human Development Index; Kenneth C. Land.- Chapter 8. The Index of Social Progress; Richard J. Estes.- Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Subjective Approaches.- Chapter 9. The Overall Satisfaction with Life; Ruut Veenhoven.- Chapter 10. Multi-Item Measurement of Subjective Well-Being; Robert A. Cummins and Melissa K. Weinberg.- Chapter 11. The Affect Balance Scale; Norman Bradburn.- Part III. Socio-Economic Structures of Well-Being.- Chapter 12. Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence; Richard A. Easterlin.- Chapter 13. Well-Being and Sustainable Consumption; Monica Guillen and Harold Langford Wilhite.- Chapter 14. Poverty and People's Well-Being; Mariano Rojas.- Chapter 15. Well-Being and the Labor Market from a Global View: It's not just the Money; Duncan Campbell and Roger Magi Gomis Porquet.- Chapter 16. The Contributiion of Unpaid Work to Global Well-Being; Maria-Angeles Duran.- Chapter 17. Welfare Production and Quality of Life; Michael Dauderstädt.- Part IV. Social Structures of Well-Being.- Chapter 18. Living Alone and Living Together: Their Significance for Well-Being; Liz Eckermann.- Chapter 19. Worldwide View of Child Well-Being; Vicki L. Lamb and Kenneth C. Land.- Chapter 20. Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life; Fermina Roja-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas and Vivente Rodriguez-Rodriguez.- Chapter 21. Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context; David Bartram.- Part V. Well-Being in Nations and at Continents.- Chapter 22. Quality of Life and Well-Being in North-Africa: Algeria, Eqypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia; Habib Tiliouine.- Chapter 23. Shadow of the Sun: The Distribution of Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benjamin J. Roberts, Steven L. Gordon, Valerie Møller and Jarè Struwig.- Chapter 24. Well-Being in Canada; Simon Langlois.- Chapter 25. Quality of Life in the United States; Rhonda Philips.- Chapter 26. Argentina's Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited: 1984-2012; Martin Tetaz, Pablo Schiaffino and Miguel Braun.- Chapter 27. Multiple Modes of Well-Being in Asia; Takashi Inoguchi.- Chapter 28. The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia; Melissa K. Weinberg and Robert A. Cummins.- Chapter 29. An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe; Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois and Erika Mezger.- Chapter 30. Well-Being in Slovakia; Jozef Dzuka.- Chapter 31. From Dissonance to Wellbeing and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades; Christian Suter, Katia Iglesias and Jehane Moussa.- Chapter 32. Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic; Birgir Poppel.- Part VI. Social Reporting on Well-Being in Supranational Organizations.- Chapter 33. Well-Being and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD; Romina Boarini.- Chapter 34. The World Health Organization: The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe; Claudia Stein and Ritu Sadana.- Chapter 35. Social Reporting of the European Union: Description of the Organization; Marleen De Smedt.- Chapter 36. Well-Being for All - The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe; Gilda Farell.- Part VII. Basic Dimensions of Global Well-Being.- Chapter 37. Asses
About the Author: Wolfgang Glatzer from the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main was engaged in quality of life and social indicators research during all the time of his professional life. His interest was also directed toward monitoring social change and analysing welfare and progress.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789401791779
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 57
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 894
  • Series Title: International Handbooks of Quality-Of-Life
  • Sub Title: Exploration of Well-being of Nations and Continents
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9401791775
  • Publisher Date: 14 Mar 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2015 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 48 mm
  • Weight: 1821 gr


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