Handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Maddison (professor of economics, University of Birmingham, UK), Katrin Rehdanz (professor of economics, Kiel University) and Heinz Welsch (professor emeritus of economics, University of Oldenburg, Germany).
• Editors: Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (448 pages)
• Subjects: 155.91; Nature -- Psychological aspects; Happiness; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1788119347; 9781788119344
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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