"Improving Quality of Life: Exploring Standard of Living, Wellbeing, and Community Development" ed. by Ryan Merlin Yonk

This volume provides a window into what influences the quality of life, why people live longer, and why we are relatively better off compared to decades ago. This volume provides useful insight into these challenges and helps to highlight a clear and important separation between wellbeing and standard of living, both relevant to assessing the quality of life.

While the potential ways of measuring life quality are abundant, understanding what causes improvement requires careful study and consideration. Standard of living refers to the material welfare of a group. Wellbeing, on the other hand, encapsulates harder-to-measure subjective preferences. Together they help us to understand the quality of life of certain groups at specific times, and in specific communities.

Contents
1. Intergenerational Support Networks and Wellbeing in Old Age
2. GDP Almost Perfectly Predicts Survival
3. Economic and Financial Crimes and the Development of Society
4. Role of Green Spaces for Maintaining Well-Being in Residential Community Development
5. Standard of Living, Well-Being and Community Development: The Case of Botswana
6. The Reform in Government Expenditure and the Standard of Living in Bahrain
7. Assessing the Sustainability of Community-Driven Development Projects in Lao PDR
8. Networking and Participatory Research Promoting Quality of Life and Well-Being in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries
9. Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications of Gold Mining in Afro-Descendant Communities from Colombia
10. An Analysis of Economic Determinants and Crime in Selected Gauteng Local Municipalities


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