Global Handbook of Quality of Life Exploration of Well-Being of Nati
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings, and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope
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Wolfgang Glatzer and Laura Camfield Valerie Møller Mariano Rojas Editors
Global Handbook of Quality of Life Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents
Global Handbook of Quality of Life
International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
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Wolfgang Glatzer and Laura Camfield Valerie Møller Editors Mariano Rojas
Global Handbook of Quality of Life Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents
Editor Wolfgang Glatzer Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Co-editors Laura Camfield University of East Anglia Norfolk, United Kingdom
Valerie Møller Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa
Mariano Rojas FLACSO-Me´xico and UPAEP Mexico City, Mexico Editorial Assistance Jennifer Gulyas Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ruth Hasberg Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life ISBN 978-94-017-9177-9 ISBN 978-94-017-9178-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6
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Foreword
This is an extra-ordinary collection of papers designed to be comprehensive with respect to topics covered and methodologies employed by scholars across the whole globe with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The editors are well-known productive academics who promise a great deal and deliver the goods as promised. Since the middle 1960s an enormous amount of research has been accumulated on quality of life and/or wellbeing. So some overviews of accomplishments of the work of the past 50 years or so have been needed. There have been a few overviews of the field, including most recently the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research edited by Land, Mi
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