Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment

Edited by David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This topical and engaging Handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the relationship between happiness and the natural environment. With interdisciplinary contributions from top scholars, it explores the role of happiness research as a new approach to environmental social science, illustrating the critical links between human wellbeing, happiness and the environment.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781788119337
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Economics, wellbeing and happiness: a historical perspective , pp 13-24

Luigino Bruni

Ch 2 World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ , pp 25-45

Ruut Veenhoven

Ch 3 Spatial variation in life satisfaction: a happiness puzzle , pp 46-70

Mona Ahmadiani, Finbarr Brereton, Susana Ferreira and Mirko Moro

Ch 4 Happiness and environmental economics , pp 71-84

Heinz Welsch

Ch 5 Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: an environmental social sciences approach , pp 85-103

Jianjun Tang, Honghao Ren and Henk Folmer

Ch 6 Cross-country variations in subjective wellbeing explained by the climate , pp 105-126

David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz

Ch 7 Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfall extremes in the United Kingdom , pp 127-143

Michael Berlemann, Judith Regner and Jascha Tutt

Ch 8 Happiness and forest-attacking invasive alien species , pp 144-163

Benjamin Jones

Ch 9 Happiness and air pollution , pp 164-182

Arik Levinson

Ch 10 The effects of exposure to air pollution on subjective wellbeing in China , pp 183-200

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

Ch 11 Noise and subjective wellbeing , pp 201-224

Daniel Fujiwara and Ricky N. Lawton

Ch 12 Measuring the wellbeing and health impacts of sewage odour , pp 225-244

Daniel Fujiwara, Iulian Gramatki and Kieran Keohane

Ch 13 The effect of green areas on life satisfaction: a comparison of subjective and objective measures , pp 245-265

Teresa Ruckelshauß

Ch 14 Mappiness: natural environments and in-the-moment happiness , pp 266-282

George MacKerron and Susana Mourato

Ch 15 Legacy effects and individual heterogeneity in the relationship between health and wellbeing , pp 283-296

Peter Howley

Ch 16 Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonic price data: the case of wind turbines , pp 297-317

Christian Krekel

Ch 17 Happiness and energy supply , pp 318-328

Heinz Welsch

Ch 18 Green with satisfaction: the relationship between pro-environmental behaviours and subjective wellbeing , pp 329-348

Kate Laffan

Ch 19 Happiness and green lifestyle , pp 349-366

Heinz Welsch

Ch 20 How environmental ethics affect the consumption–wellbeing relationship: evidence from Japan , pp 367-384

Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi

Ch 21 An empirical assessment of the indigenous Sumak Kawsay (living well): the importance of nature and relationships , pp 385-398

Carmen Amelia Coral-Guerrero, Jorge Guardiola and Fernando Garc'a-Quero

Ch 22 Mother Earth and household welfare functions of First Nations peoples of Canada , pp 399-420

Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng

Ch 23 Happiness in retrospect and prospect , pp 422-430

Bruno Frey

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