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Part I. Methods and Indicators for Quality of Life Research.- Chapter 1. Quantification of Partially Ordered Data and the Evaluation of Financial Literacy (Fattore).- Chapter 2. Using a Composite Index to Measure Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities (Mazziotta).- Chapter 3. Measurement of Well-Being in Territories: An Application for Italian Provinces (Costa).- Chapter 4. Corruption Indicators and Prevention Policies (Carloni).- Chapter 5. Corruption Prevention: First Evidences from the 2015 RPC Survey for Italian Municipalities (Gnaldi).- Chapter 6. Transparency and Social-Political Environment in Italy (Galli).- Chapter 7. The Quality of Life in the Historic Centre of Naples: The Use of PLS-PM Models to Measure the Well-Being of the Citizens of Napels (Cataldo).- Chapter 8. The Incidence of Sin Taxes: Evidence from Italy (Di Bella).- Chapter 9. With Whom Do We Compare Our Income? The Effect of Gendered Income Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being (Ravazzini).- Part II. Social Sustainability, Lifestyle, Cultural Aspects and Local Applications.- Chapter 10. Sustainability of Well- Being: An Analysis of Resilience and Vulnerability through Subjective Indicators (Bachelet).- Chapter 11. A Multi-Stakeholder FrameBES Data: A Focus on Health in South Tyrol (Salustri).- Chapter 12. Food Styles and Well-Being of Italian People: A Contribution from Official Statistics (Corazziari).- Chapter 13. Food, Eating Behaviors and Quality of Life (Di Francesco).- Chapter 14. Food Waste and Quality of Life (Corvo).- Chapter 15. Culture Creativity and Quality of Life in Old Age (Cristini).- Chapter 16. The Past Empowering the Present: Intergenerational Solidarity Improving Quality of Life (Dryjanski).- Chapter 17. Intergenerational Sustainable Tourism and Quality of Life (Albanese).- Chapter 18. Territories and Landscapes: Place Identity, Quality of Life and Psychological Well-Being in Rural Areas (Ferrari).- Part III. Economy, Welfare and Quality of Life.- Chapter 19. Economic Growth, Quality of Life, Life Styles and Sustainability: Correlations and New Variable to be Considered as Indicators (Ciani Scarnicci).- Chapter 20. European Welfare State: Does Decentralization Affect Poverty? (Coli).- Chapter 21. Decent Work Principles and Job Quality Criteria to Improve Sustainable and Equitable Well-Being (Conigliaro).- Chapter 22. Patient Satisfaction and Uncertainty in Illness in Oncology (Giammanco).- Chapter 23. The Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability of Energy Sources (Borelli).- Chapter 24. Sports and Physical Activities in Europe: How to Measure Active Life Styles (Mussino).- Chapter 25. The Emergence of the Middle Class and Improving Quality of Life in the Global South (Bianco).
About the Author: Adele Bianco is Associate Professor of General Sociology at the University of Chieti-Pescara. PhD in Sociology of Development (University of Pisa, 1994), she has been lecturer and vising professor in several foreign Universities in Germany, Denmark, Kosovo. She was CNR (Italian National Research Center) and CNR NATO Senior fellow (1995-1996). She is Editor in Chief of the Book Series "Studi in Scienze Umane e Sociali" Quodlibet Publishing, Macerata and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainable Development Research and of the scientific board of the "Applied Sociological Theory" Book Series Harmattan Publishing. She is member of the scientific committee of AIQUAV, Italian Association on Quality of life studies. Before getting a permanent position in the Italian University, she worked for ten years a civil servant at the Italian Ministry of Labour and was EUR.E.S. (European Employment Service) Adviser for the European Commission.
Paola Conigliaro is PhD candidate in Applied Social Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is a statistical technician at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). She had previous experiences as researcher in various public and private institutions. Main subjects of those researches were organisational studies, labour sociology, social inclusion through work, organisational well-being. She also has a good experiece as manager of social cooperatives. In recent years she devoted the research activity to social sustainability, decent work and subjective well-being. She was member of the Scientific Commission of the BES (Equitable and Sustainable Well-being) project, with the role of technical support. On behalf of the AIQUAV (Italian Association of Quality of Life Studies) she is member of the working group on Goal 8 (SDGs) of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (AsviS).
Michela Gnaldi is Associate Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Perugia, Italy. She has spent the initial part of her career as a research fellow at the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow (UK) and as a statistician at the National Foundation for Educational Research (UK). Over the last 15 years has taken part in and led several international and national projects. She builded up research collaborations in Europe and beyond and authored over 60 research products published in international journals and encyclopedias on the themes of composite indicator construction, psychometrics, corruption prevention measurement, vote behaviour estimation. She is editor for Springer and FrancoAngeli, associate editor of Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics (RCE), member of the editorial board of Journal of Well-Being Assessment (Springer), and member of the scientific committee of AIQUAV, Italian Association on Quality of life studies.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783030060213
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 401
  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research
  • Weight: 802 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030060217
  • Publisher Date: 24 May 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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