Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of different dimensions of quality of life across continents
- Covers key dimensions of quality of life to benefit students and academics across disciplines
- Adds a new facet in the field of human geography to attract social geographers into quality of life research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- Life Satisfaction Among the Elderly
- Open Spaces, Recreation and Quality of Life
- Social Wellbeing and Health
- Literacy and Quality of Life
- Sustainable Development and Quality of Life
- Employment and Quality of Life
- Migration and Displacement
- Contraception Use and Quality of Life
- Measuring Quality of Life
- Gender Roles and Life Satisfaction
Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Theoretical Dimension
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Demographic Dimension
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Socio-cultural and Economic Dimension
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Braj Raj Kumar Sinha is Professor of Geography at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He obtained B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. from Patna University, India and Ph. D. from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. He has previously worked at Visva-Bharati (a Central University), Santiniketan, West Bengal from 1988 to 2007 (last appointment as professor). Professor Sinha's current areas of teaching and research interest are population geography, cartography, resource geography and development studies. He has more than 65 research papers/articles and two books to his credit with national and international publishers. Prof. Sinha has been the Vice-President and member of the Executive Council of the National Association of Geographers of India. Dr. Sinha was one of the members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Field Studies, UK. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of Human Geographies--Journal of Studies and Researchin Human Geography and a member of the International Board of Directors of the Asian Urban Research Association (AURA, Akron, USA). He has visited Czech Republic, South Korea, Romania, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia for academic purpose.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multidimensional Approach to Quality of Life Issues
Book Subtitle: A Spatial Analysis
Editors: Braj Raj Kumar Sinha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6958-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6957-5Published: 06 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6960-5Published: 06 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6958-2Published: 27 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 457
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Economic Geography