![]() While stability, trust, equal access to resources and the social integration of disadvantaged members of society enhance well-being, poverty, social exclusion, congestion in cities, HIV/AIDS and global warming pose threats to both modern and traditional lifestyles. Contributions cover a wide range of issues that impact positively and negatively on wellbeing in our age. This collection of papers presents an innovative approach to evaluating living standards and wellbeing under the new circumstances facing individuals and societies in twenty-first century. It is the interplay of such key trends of the era that calls for a fresh approach to measuring quality of life. World society is rapidly urbanising and ageing and exhausting its natural resources. We live in a knowledge society and in a time of risk and uncertainty. The new millennium is widely considered to be the age of globalisation, democratisation, and human rights. ![]()
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