Handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment / edited by David Maddison and Katrin and Heinz.

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"This topical and engaging Handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the relationship between happiness and the natural environment. With interdisciplinary contributions from top scholars, it explores the role of happiness research as a new approach to environmental social science, illustrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing (Publisher)
Other Authors: Maddison, David, 1965- (Editor)
Rehdanz, Katrin (Editor)
Welsch, Heinz, 1955- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
Subjects:
Nature > Psychological aspects.
Happiness.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Elgar Online)
Physical Description:1 online resource (448 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Foreword by Andrew Oswald
  • Introduction to the handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment / David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch
  • Part I: Social sciences, happiness and the environment
  • 1. Economics, wellbeing and happiness: a historical perspective / Luigino Bruni
  • 2. World database of happiness: a 'findings archive' / Ruut Veenhoven
  • 3. Spatial variation in life satisfaction: a happiness puzzle / Mona Ahmadiani, Finbarr Brereton, Susana Ferreira and Mirko Moro
  • 4. Happiness and environmental economics / Heinz Welsch
  • 5. Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: an environmental social sciences approach / Jianjun Tang, Honghao Ren and Henk Folmer
  • Part II: Case studies on happiness and the environment
  • 6. Cross-country variations in subjective wellbeing explained by the climate / David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz
  • 7. Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfall extremes in the United Kingdom / Michael Berlemann, Judith Regner and Jascha Tutt
  • 8. Happiness and forest-attacking invasive alien species / Benjamin A. Jones
  • 9. Happiness and air pollution / Arik Levinson
  • 10. The effects of exposure to air pollution on subjective wellbeing in China / Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang
  • 11. Noise and subjective wellbeing / Daniel Fujiwara and Ricky N. Lawton
  • 12. Measuring the wellbeing and health impacts of sewage odour / Daniel Fujiwara, Iulian Gramatki and Kieran Keohane
  • 13. The effect of green areas on life satisfaction: a comparison of subjective and objective measures / Teresa Ruckelshau
  • 14. Mappiness: natural environments and in-the-moment happiness / George MacKerron and Susana Mourato
  • 15. Legacy effects and individual heterogeneity in the relationship between health and wellbeing / Peter Howley
  • 16. Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonic price data: the case of wind turbines / Christian Krekel
  • 17. Happiness and energy supply / Heinz Welsch
  • 18. Green with satisfaction: the relationship between pro-environmental behaviours and subjective wellbeing / Kate Laffan
  • 19. Happiness and green lifestyle / Heinz Welsch
  • 20. How environmental ethics affect the consumption-wellbeing relationship: evidence from Japan / Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi
  • 21. An empirical assessment of the indigenous sumak kawsay
  • (living well): the importance of nature and relationships / Carmen Amelia Coral-Guerrero, Jorge Guardiola and Fernando Garc.a-Quero
  • 22. Mother earth and household welfare functions of first nations peoples of Canada / Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng
  • Part III: Conclusion
  • 23 happiness in retrospect and prospect / Bruno S. Frey
  • Index.