Well-being, context, and everyday activities in space and time
Accessibility ; Hong Kong ; Location ; Neighbourhood ; Participation ; Social capital ; Social geography ; Urban area ; Well-being
This article analyzes how well-being is associated with geographical context, social contacts, and life circumstances in Hong Kong. First, it finds that life satisfaction is associated more strongly with geographical context than is momentary well
-being. Second, it confirms positive relations between social contacts and experienced well-being but extend earlier research by showing that these relations stretch across multiple timescales and depend to some extent on the duration of an activity
in both cases the changes described have striking visible impact on the landscape and significant flow-on effects, some of them intangible and unquantifiable, on the well-being of the people who inhabit these landscapes. These cases present the two ends
Regional disparities ; Social indicators ; Social inequity;Social disparity ; Standard of living ; Sweden ; Welfare;Well-being
The A. analyzes the detailed statistics on Swedish life to conclude that Sweden has gone far toward obliterating regional differences in the important indices of well-being.―(DWG)
Migration, well-being and development in coastal New South Wales 1976-91
Age group ; Australia ; Coastal environment ; Counterurbanization ; Economic indicators ; Employment ; Internal migration ; Migratory balance ; New South Wales ; Socio-economic system ; Well-being
Small manufacturing and nonmetropolitan socioeconomic well-being
Economic base ; Economic restructuring ; Living standard ; Local economy ; Regional economy ; Small firm ; Socio-economic system ; Sociology ; United States of America ; Well-being
Hungary ; Quality of life ; Social geography ; Village ; Welfare ; Well-being
The paper describes research based on statistical and empirical data from North Cserehát, Hungary. The research aims to show the quality of life (both welfare and well-being) of 17 villages in this area. Several variables were used to present