A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator

Smyth, Russell; Nielsen, Ingrid; Zhai, Qingguo; Liu, Tiemin; Liu, Yin; Tang, Chunyong; Wang, Zhihong; Wang, Zuxiang; Zhang, Jie

doi:10.1007/s11111-010-0123-z

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“…People live in rural area usually happier than in urban area. Better environment quality, better social engagement and more peaceful life in rural (Smyth et al, 2011). On the other hand rural people may have worse life than urban people because of lower income, public transportation, and health quality (Youmans, 1977).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu¹

2016

MJSS

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The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu¹

2016

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“…This result is quite different from other research. Better environment quality, social engagement and peaceful life make rural people are happy (Smyth et al, 2011). On the other hand rural people may have many problems such as lower income, insufficient public transportation, and lower health quality than urban people.…”

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The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu

Harmadi

2016

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The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of income, health, education, and social capital on happiness in Indonesia. The data was taken from National Survey of Social Economic conducted by National Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia in 2012. Ordered probit model was used as estimation technique due to ordinal dependent variable and normal distribution of error assumption. The findings show happiness is affected by absolute income, physical perceived health status, mental health, medium and high level of education, trust in leader, participation on society's activities, tolerance, and help for and from others. However relative income, gender, household head, junior high school, and trust to neighbors do not have significant effect on happiness. Easterlin paradox does not exist in Indonesia because income has positive impact on happiness. Satisfaction on works, financial, family harmony, and leisure time also have significant effect on happiness. Satisfaction on family harmony is the most important factor than others. From demographic variables, it was known that happiness is not different across gender, household head, and low education people. People who are married, live in urban areas, live outside Java and Bali islands, and have more children are found happier. Happiness-age relationship indicates U-shaped curve. Happiness tends to decrease over time until people reach 51 years old. For all three level of happiness, some predictors do not have significant marginal effect on happiness namely relative income, gender, low education level, and trust to neighbors. Meanwhile the variables of household head and number of infant are not robust.

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“…The existence of green spaces in the city and nearby surroundings is a crucial dimension of city quality and citizens' well-being (Ambrey and Fleming 2013;Joffe and Smith 2016;Krekel, Kolbe, and W€ ustemann 2016;Smyth et al 2011). Nature impacts individuals' physical and mental health (Bell, Wilson, and Liu 2008;Ellaway, Macintyre, and Bonnefoy 2005;Sugiyama et al 2008;Thompson et al 2012;White et al 2013).…”

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“…Their study shows that a range of ecosystem services in Stockholm-air filtration, micro climate regulation, noise reduction, rainwater drainage, sewage treatment, and recreational and cultural values-have a high impact on the quality of urban life. A natural environment has a positive effect on people's affections, cognition (Bratman et al 2015), and happiness (Smyth et al 2011). It seems clear that we must start paying more attention to the way we use the land and plan the cities and their ecosystem services (Brown, Oueslati, and Silva 2016;Chastenet et al 2016;Flynn et al 2016;Krekel, Kolbe, and W€ ustemann 2016;Kronenberg 2015) as an opportunity and a way for social ecological change toward ecological sustainability (Jansson 2013).…”

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Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

Carvalho¹,

Costa²,

Marnoto³

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Growth and Change

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Based on an extensive literature review on intelligent cities, smart cities, and happy cities, and on their conceptual connections with citizens' well‐being, quality of life, and happiness, we developed a resource‐based view on City Quality: the PESNAT (political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological) framework. The concept of City Quality rests on the idea of cities interconnected sub‐habitats—PESNAT—which are powerful analytical categories needed for understanding cities as complex and intricate loci. This framework eventually aims at assessing the cities' power to attract businesses and people, to contribute to a sustainable development of the city and an increased quality of life. Furthermore, two hypotheses are outlined regarding the level of importance of each sub‐habitat in relation to happiness, and the level of controversy of each one for citizens, city planners, and decision makers.

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A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator

Cited by 47 publications

References 74 publications

The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

The Determinants of Happiness in Indonesia

The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

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