URBAN INTERVENTION, PROSPERITY AND WELL-BEING

Environmental Attitudes and Subjective Well-being in Urban China

We examine how environmental attitudes influence subjective well-being in urban China. We find that considering environmental protection important on its own has no effect on subjective wellbeing; however, those who consider environmental protection important and have a higher sense of collectivism or concern for others have a lower level of subjective well-being. We interpret this result as in...

Urban Nature for Human Health and Well-being

Commute Time and Subjective Well-Being in Urban China

Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the association between commute time and subjective well-being in a sample of 16to 65-year-old employees in urban China. We find evidence that a longer commute time is associated with lower levels of both life satisfaction and happiness, especially when the commute times are extreme (≥ 1 hour per day). A multiple media...

Environmental Surroundings and Personal Well-being in Urban China

We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, water pollution, traffic congestion, access to parkland and personal well-being using a survey administered across six Chinese cities in 2007. In contrast to existing studies of the determinants of well-being by economists, which have typically employed single item indicators to measure well-being, we use the Personal Well-Being Index (...

Urban Green Space Perception and Its Contribution to Well-Being

Individual perceptions are essential when evaluating the well-being benefits from urban green spaces. This study predicted the influence of perceived green space characteristics in the city of Szeged, Hungary, on two well-being variables: the green space visitors' level of satisfaction and the self-reported quality of life. The applied logistic regression analysis used nine predictors: seven pe...