Overview
- Presents a series of life-oriented behavioral studies for public policies by linking them with the quality of life mainly in an urban context
- Provides extensive literature reviews about how interdependent life choices have been captured in different disciplines
- Introduces new empirical evidence of behavioral interdependencies within and across life domains based on a broad set of life-choice data
- Illustrates interbehavioral analysis frameworks with respect to various life domains, e.g., migration, job, residence, travel, health, leisure and tourism, and energy consumption
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Keywords
- Lifestyle and quality
- Quality of life (QOL)
- Human behavior
- Consumer behavior
- Mobility
- Time use
- Activity-based approach
- Car ownership and usage
- Travel behavior
- Residential behavior
- Health behavior
- Energy consumption
- Leisure and tourism
- Safety and security
- Cross-sectoral policy
- urban geography and urbanism
- landscape/regional and urban planning
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Book Title: Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy
Editors: Junyi Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56472-0
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56470-6Published: 12 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56796-7Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56472-0Published: 03 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 518
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Quality of Life Research, Community and Environmental Psychology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning