Monitoring progress towards key social and economic goals requires a comprehensive
understanding of the social, cultural, and economic aspects of sustainability and the …

The improvement of rural human settlements is an important task in the Rural Revitalisation
strategy in China. Determining the quality and spatial distribution of rural human settlements …

Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies
from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are …

This study examines the relationship between housing conditions and the quality of life of
the urban poor in Malaysia. Housing conditions includes the physical conditions of …

Culture plays crucial roles in human groups. It allows us to collectively “meet basic needs of
survival, by coordinating social behaviour to achieve a viable existence, to transmit …

Social science perspectives can inform helminth disease control in Southeast Asia. The
social science literature offers theoretical and conceptual models; research methods; …

This paper considers the possible contribution of Quality of Life methods in international
development policy and practice. It discusses the role of theories of human needs in how …

This paper explores family and non-family factors contributing to happiness among students
aged 15–18 in Thailand. Data come from the Social and Cultural Situation and Mental …

This article links primary research into the way subjective well‐being among poor people
can be defined and measured to the growing literature on poverty as a failure of capacity to …

Within material poverty contexts, consumption and subjective wellbeing are positively and
strongly related. This is usually explained in terms of the increased possibilities to satisfy …