TY - BOOK

T1 - Rural quality of life

A2 - Johansen, Pia Heike

A2 - Tietjen, Anne

A2 - Bundgård Iversen, Evald

A2 - Lauridsen Lolle, Henrik

A2 - Kaae Fisker, Jens

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - 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 policy makers 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 policy-makers, 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.

AB - 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 policy makers 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 policy-makers, 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.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Rural happiness

KW - Well-being

KW - Rural-urban paradox

KW - Quality of life

U2 - 10.7765/9781526161642

DO - 10.7765/9781526161642

M3 - Book

SN - 9781526161635

BT - Rural quality of life

PB - Manchester University Press

CY - Manchester

ER -