图书简介
This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being. By integrating spatial and geostatistical methods, it sheds new light on the spatial and geographical aspects of subjective well-being. Geographical analysis allows us to measure spatial and regional discrepancies in subjective well-being and to identify heterogeneous profiles in terms of social, economic and environmental patterns. Consequently, the papers gathered here address various topics concerning the spatial aspects of subjective well-being, including social injustice, age, new urban spaces, and tourism. The book proposes a multidisciplinary approach and is intended for scholars and students in the fields of geography, economics and the spatial sciences. By examining several critical dimensions of happiness and subjective well-being, it enriches the complexity of regional decision-making on the path toward happier and more liveable societies.
Chapter 1. Happiness Geography: Defining the field (Eric Vaz).- Part I. Regional Challenges.- Chapter 2. A Spatial Analysis of the Instagram hashtag #happy: An assessment of Toronto (Eric Vaz).- Chapter 3. The subjective well-being in North Africa and the impacts on agriculture and urban land (Azzeddine Bellout).- Part II. Territorial Challenges.- Chapter 4. Researching quality of life in old age: some conceptual and methodological principles (Jose Sao Jose).- Chapter 5. Peripheral retail expansion: social implications and spatial inequalities The case of the Île-de-France region (André Torre).- Part III. Location Challenges.- Chapter 6. Sustainable Cities, Quality of Life and Mobility-Related Happiness (Karima Kourtit).- Chapter 7. Tourism, Climate Change and Wellbeing: The Products’ Diversity as an Opportunity (Andre Samora-Arvela).- Chapter 8. Tourism, Senses and Well-being.