Providing affordable access to enough healthy and safe food for an ever-more-affluent and
growing world population has become more challenging in the face of climate change, rising …

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank
governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build …

The history of agricultural trade stretches back more than ten millennia, but it became more
inter‐continental from the 17th century and much denser in the 19th century following the …

Acknowledgment: Our main thanks are to the philosophers over the centuries who have
clarified the nature of a good life, to subjective well-being researchers over the past half …

What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing,
we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms …

There has been a rapidly growing number of studies of the geographical aspects of
happiness and well-being. Many of these studies have been highlighting the role of space …

This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative,
evidence-based introduction to a core area of the social work curriculum. Grounded in the …

A Financial Times best book of 2020, an “utterly compelling”(The Sunday Times, London)
argument from leading political analyst David Goodhart about the severely imbalanced …

Volunteering is associated with greater mental, physical and social wellbeing. However, less
is known about whether the health benefits of volunteering vary with two sets of factors …

Introduction: Understanding rural–urban differences, and understanding levels of life
satisfaction in rural populations, is important in planning social and healthcare services for …