Rural quality of life

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...

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description 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 policymakers 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 policymakers, 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1005912025-07-17T10:00:56Z Rural quality of life Heike Johansen, Pia Tietjen, Anne Bundgård Iversen, Evald Lauridsen Lolle, Henrik Kaae Fisker, Jens rural happiness well-being rural–urban paradox quality of life thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSC Rural communities thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 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 policymakers 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 policymakers, 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. 2023-06-09T04:02:10Z 2023-06-09T04:02:10Z 2023-06-08T12:16:11Z 2023 book ONIX_20230608_9781526161642_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63421 9781526161642 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/100591 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63421/1/9781526161642.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63421/1/9781526161642.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526161642 10.7765/9781526161642 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 Realdania 0341290c-7fab-4069-a75b-8c05aa710f1b 1b2d5ef0-b488-47ca-84e8-e8ddebde442c a1d4f7cc-0cae-455c-8abe-0465bdef13e2 6cf8d121-46bd-4ff3-8c3e-e6518af20e6c 9781526161642 505 Manchester [...] [...] [...] [...] open access
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Rural quality of life
title Rural quality of life
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title_short Rural quality of life
title_sort rural quality of life
topic rural happiness
well-being
rural–urban paradox
quality of life
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