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    Lessons from Multi-Country Analyses of a Global Pandemic

    This volume explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, safety, and socioeconomic well-being of community residents of selected countries around the world. It is built on an overarching framework of studying community well-being, applied here to the analyses of one of the most significant crises of our time. Most important are the lessons learned from the experiences in these ... Read more

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  • Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research

    Edited by Ed Diener, Don Rahtz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The International Society for Quality of Life Studies held its first conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997. Participants at the conference were allowed to submit their papers for the present volume. The submitted manuscripts went through a review and revision process, and the papers in this book represent the best articles from that process. Because the society sponsoring this volume is ... Read more

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  • Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in ... Read more

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  • Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the sixth in a series covering bet practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The cases in this volume describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, the planning of community indicators, the actual indicators that ... Read more

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  • Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The proposed book is a sequel to volume 1-4 of Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases. The first volume, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases was edited by M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and Dong-Jin Lee and published in 2004 by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Social Indicators Research Book Series (volume 22). The second volume, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best ... Read more

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  • Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

    Best Cases

    Series Book 22 - Social Indicators Research Series
    This book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. The cases describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, the planning of community indicators, the actual indicators that were selected, the data collection ... Read more

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  • Combatting Jihadist Terrorism through Nation-Building

    A Quality-of-Life Perspective

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world. It builds on results of the extensive body of quality of life studies to document the historical, geo-political, economic, religious, cultural and media drivers of Jihadist terrorism. Guided by a major theme this ... Read more

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    Pathways to Effectiveness

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