Handbook of Quality of Life Research

Handbook of Quality of Life Research
Author: Robert W. Marans
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789908795

This erudite Handbook demonstrates how multiple approaches have been used to conceptualize, measure, and model the complex issue of quality of life (QOL) and individual well-being, emphasizing place and space as critical factors in a meaningful QOL experience among diverse populations including special attention given to older adults.

Investigating Quality of Urban Life

Investigating Quality of Urban Life
Author: Robert W. Marans
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9400717423

The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on QOUL and methodological approaches to research design to investigate QOUL and measure QOL dimensions. It incorporates empirical investigations into QOUL in a range of cities across the world.

ORD Publications Summary

ORD Publications Summary
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1976
Genre: Environmental engineering
ISBN:

The Selling of the South

The Selling of the South
Author: James Charles Cobb
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252061622

From the Great Depression to the Sunbelt Era the South has pursued industrial development as the remedy for its economic ills. The mixed results of this ongoing crusade are chronicled in this path-breaking study, updated to 1990, in which James Cobb examines the expectations, achievements, and side effects of the dive for southern industrialization.

Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000

Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000
Author: Brian J.L Berry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134728581

Urban Geography in America offers a comprehensive historiography of this major field. Compiling the best essays from the flagship journal Urban Geography , it shows the evolution of the field from the 1950s to 2000, as it shifted from data-driven social science modeling in the 1960s to the more critical perspectives of the 1970s to postmodernism in the 1980s to feminism and globalization in the 1990s. It covers all the major trends and figures, and features some of the most important names in the field. Ultimately, this will be a necessary reference for all scholars in the field and all graduate students taking introductory courses and preparing for their comprehensive exams.