Rural quality of life
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Rural quality of life. / Johansen, Pia Heike (Redaktør); Tietjen, Anne (Redaktør); Bundgård Iversen, Evald (Redaktør); Lauridsen Lolle, Henrik (Redaktør); Kaae Fisker, Jens (Redaktør).
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022. 505 s.Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Rural quality of life
A2 - Johansen, Pia Heike
A2 - Tietjen, Anne
A2 - Bundgård Iversen, Evald
A2 - Lauridsen Lolle, Henrik
A2 - Kaae Fisker, Jens
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policy makers alike: the rural–urban happiness paradox. Is quality of life really better in the countryside? How and under which circumstances is this the case? Did influential writers like Edward Glaeser get it all wrong when suggesting that the city had now triumphed? What can we learn from digging deeper in the rural-urban happiness paradox and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? What might policy-makers, planners, architects, and other influential actors learn from such an exercise? The purpose of the proposed book is to delve deeper into these matters by asking what quality of life in rural areas is actually all about. Since 2018 a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from four research environments at three Danish universities has been carrying out an ambitious research project to do just that. In this edited volume their findings are presented alongside chapters written by specially commissioned international authors from across Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
AB - The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policy makers alike: the rural–urban happiness paradox. Is quality of life really better in the countryside? How and under which circumstances is this the case? Did influential writers like Edward Glaeser get it all wrong when suggesting that the city had now triumphed? What can we learn from digging deeper in the rural-urban happiness paradox and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? What might policy-makers, planners, architects, and other influential actors learn from such an exercise? The purpose of the proposed book is to delve deeper into these matters by asking what quality of life in rural areas is actually all about. Since 2018 a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from four research environments at three Danish universities has been carrying out an ambitious research project to do just that. In this edited volume their findings are presented alongside chapters written by specially commissioned international authors from across Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Rural happiness
KW - Well-being
KW - Rural-urban paradox
KW - Quality of life
U2 - 10.7765/9781526161642
DO - 10.7765/9781526161642
M3 - Book
SN - 9781526161635
BT - Rural quality of life
PB - Manchester University Press
CY - Manchester
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