Glatzer W., Camfield L., Moller V., Rojas M. (Eds.) Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents

Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2015. — 896 p. — (International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life). — ISBN: 978-94-017-9177-9.Wolfgang Glatzer
Monitoring and Analyzing Quality of Life – An Introduction
Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy
Frank Swiaczny
Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run
Herman de Jong
Living Standards in a Modernizing World – A Long-Run Perspective on Material Wellbeing and Human Development
Mathias Bös and Hinrich Rosenbrock
Wars and Violence Through the Centuries
Robert K. Schaeffer
The Worldwide Spread of Democracy
Monitoring Global Wellbeing: Objective and Subjective Measurement
Jürgen Faik
Global Economic Accounting and Its Critics: Objective Approaches (1)
Kenneth C. Land
The Human Development Index: Objective Approaches (2)
Richard J. Estes
The Index of Social Progress: Objective Approaches (3)
Ruut Veenhoven
The Overall Satisfaction with Life: Subjective Approaches (1)
Robert A. Cummins and Melissa K. Weinberg
Multi-item Measurement of Subjective Wellbeing: Subjective Approaches (2)
Norman M. Bradburn
The Affect Balance Scale: Subjective Approaches (3)
Socio Economic Structures of Wellbeing
Richard A. Easterlin
Happiness and Economic Growth – The Evidence
Monica Guillen-Royo and Harold Langford Wilhite
Wellbeing and Sustainable Consumption
Mariano Rojas
Poverty and People’s Wellbeing
Duncan Campbell and Roger Magi Gomis Porquet
Well-Being and the Labour Market from a Global View: It’s Not Just the Money
Maria-Angeles Duran
The Contribution of Unpaid Work to Global Wellbeing
Michael Dauderstädt
Welfare Production and Quality of Life
Social Structures of Wellbeing
Elizabeth Eckermann
Living Alone and Living Together – Their Significance for Wellbeing
Vicki L. Lamb and Kenneth C. Land
Worldwide View of Child Wellbeing
Fermina Rojo-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas, and Vicente Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life
David Bartram
Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context
Wellbeing in Nations and at Continents
Habib Tiliouine
Quality of Life and Wellbeing in North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
Benjamin J. Roberts, Steven L. Gordon, Valerie Moller, and Jare` Struwig
Shadow of the Sun – The Distribution of Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Simon Langlois
Wellbeing in Canada
Rhonda Phillips
Quality of Life in the United States
Martin Tetaz, Pablo Schiaffino, and Miguel Braun
Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited – 1984–2012
Takashi Inoguchi
Multiple Modes of Wellbeing in Asia
Melissa K. Weinberg and Robert A. Cummins
The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia
Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois, and Erika Mezger
An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe
Jozef Džuka
Wellbeing in Slovakia
Christian Suter, Katia Iglesias, and Jehane Moussa
From Dissonance to Well-Being and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades
Birger Poppel
Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
Social Reporting on Wellbeing in Supranational Organizations
Romina Boarini
Wellbeing and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD
Claudia Stein and Ritu Sadana
The World Health Organization – The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe
Marleen De Smedt
Social Reporting of the European Union – Description of the Organization
Gilda Farrell
Wellbeing for All – The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe
Basic Dimensions of Global Wellbeing
Filomena Maggino
Assessing the Subjective Wellbeing of Nations
Yukiko Uchida, Yuji Ogihara, and Shintaro Fukushima
Cultural Construal of Wellbeing – Theories and Empirical Evidence
Louis Tay, Lauren Kuykendall, and Ed Diener
Satisfaction and Happiness – The Bright Side of Quality of Life
Wolfgang Glatzer
Worries and Pain – The Dark Side of Quality of Life
Jennifer Gulyas
Hopes and Fears – Future Views of Quality of Life