Tourism Issues -- Tourism & Environment -- Culture & Tourism -- Tourism & Development -- Tourism & Health.This book includes research papers submitted to and presented during the first international conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November of 2017. Discussing complex relations between Culture, tourism, and the role of planners and archit…
Introduction: Context and Connections -- Chapter 1. Cost-Benefit Versus Expected Utility Acceptance Rules -- Chapter 2. Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research -- Chapter 3. Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction: Life facet Satisfaction Relationships; Mallard, A.C.G., Lance, C.E. and Michalos, A.C. -- Chapter 4. Determinants of Health and the Quality…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Context and Connections -- Chapter 2. Alex C. Michalos: Pioneer of Quality of Life and Social Indicators; Bruno Zumbo -- Chapter 3. An Interview with Alex C. Michalos; Dan Weijers -- Chapter 4. The Best Teacher I Ever Had Was J. Coert Rylaarsdam -- Chapter 5. The Case for Atheism, Notes for a Discussion; Alex C. Michalos -- Chapter 6. Logic, Philosophy of Science and th…
Complete mental health: An agenda for the 21st century -- and Conceptual Framework -- Positive Formation of the Self: Character, Attitudes, Spirituality, and Identity -- The Values in Action Inventory of Character Strengths for Youth -- Adolescent Spirituality -- Children’s Life Satisfaction -- Measuring Hope in Children -- The Ethnic Identity Scale -- Healthy Habits, Positive Behaviors, and …
Quality of Life in the Global Context: A Chinese Response -- Arts and the Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study -- Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live -- Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004 -- Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Enviro…
Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection -- Social Indicators Research: A Case Study of the Development of a Journal -- Developing Measures of Perceived Life Quality: Results from Several National Surveys -- The Quality of Life in Large American Cities: Objective and Subjective Social Indicators -- Quality of Life -- Does Money Buy Satisfaction? -- On the Multivariate Structure of Wellbei…
1: Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2: Population Aging/Demographic change -- 3: Health and Aging -- 4: Cultural diversity and aging -- 5: Indigenous Australians and Aging -- 6: Employment and older people -- 7: Attitudes to Aging -- 8: Health policy and aging -- 9: Aging and Health Services -- 10: Retirement Income -- 11: Environments of Aging -- 12: Transport Options for Older Pe…
Foreword; Harry Halloran -- Part I. Historical Conceptions of Well-Being over the Long Term.- Chapter 1. The Search for Well-Being: From Ancient to Modern Times; Richard J. Estes.- Chapter 2. Western Historical Traditions of Well-Being; Alex C. Michalos and Dan Weijer. Chapter 3. East Asian Historical Traditions of Well-Being; Shawn Arthur and Victor Mair.- Chapter 4. Well-Being in…
Part I. Conceptual issues -- Chapter 1. Epistemology of Complexity (Alberto Peruzzi) -- Chapter 2. Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach (Rocco Sacconaghi) -- Part 2. Methodological Issues -- Chapter 3. Socio-Economic Statistics for A Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era (Marco Fattore) -- Chapter 4. Developing Indicators and Mana…
Response Processes in the Context of Validity: Setting the Stage (Anita M. Hubley and Bruno D. Zumbo) -- Chapter 2. Response Processes and Measurement Validity in Health Psychology (Mark R. Beauchamp and Desmond McEwan) -- Chapter 3. Contributions of Response Process Analysis to the Validation of an Assessment of Higher Education Students’ Competence in Business and Economics (Sebastian Brüc…