Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment

Edited by David Maddison, Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK, Katrin Rehdanz, Professor of Economics, Kiel University and Heinz Welsch, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Oldenburg, Germany

'This exciting Handbook brings together leading authors investigating the state-of-the-art in behaviour economics, when they are concerned with SWB, when SWB is modelled as an explicit function of environmental goods and services. This Handbook is one of the most efficient pathways towards the understanding of the underpinnings and contribution of ''Happiness Economics'' in understanding the ''socio-economic value'' of Environmental and Resources Economics, and identification of the challenges that lie ahead.'--Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business, and President-Elect, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Greece'A complete analysis of well-being has to address both its individual and contextual determinants. This volume brings together a much-needed collection of contributions addressing many aspects of climate and the environment. Together they will help researchers to move to a truly global measure of individual, societal and indeed global well-being.'--Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics, France'The Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment is an intriguing collection of papers that discuss and utilize measurements of household happiness. Happiness is not closely correlated with income across countries, but happiness is associated with better environments that have more green space, less pollution, less noise, and Mediterranean climates.'--Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University, US

• Contents:Foreword by Andrew Oswald ixIntroduction to the Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment 1David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz WelschPART I SOCIAL SCIENCES, HAPPINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT1 Economics, wellbeing and happiness: a historical perspective 13Luigino Bruni2 World Database of Happiness: a ‘findings archive’ 25Ruut Veenhoven3 Spatial variation in life satisfaction: a happiness puzzle 46Mona Ahmadiani, Finbarr Brereton, Susana Ferreira and Mirko Moro4 Happiness and environmental economics 71Heinz Welsch5 Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: anenvironmental social sciences approach 85Jianjun Tang, Honghao Ren and Henk FolmerPART II CASE STUDIES ON HAPPINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT6 Cross-country variations in subjective wellbeing explained by the climate 105David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz7 Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfallextremes in the United Kingdom 127Michael Berlemann, Judith Regner and Jascha Tutt8 Happiness and forest-attacking invasive alien species 144Benjamin A. Jones9 Happiness and air pollution 164Arik Levinson10 The effects of exposure to air pollution on subjective wellbeing in China 183Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang11 Noise and subjective wellbeing 201Daniel Fujiwara and Ricky N. Lawton12 Measuring the wellbeing and health impacts of sewage odour 225Daniel Fujiwara, Iulian Gramatki and Kieran Keohane13 The effect of green areas on life satisfaction: a comparison of subjectiveand objective measures 245Teresa Ruckelshau.14 Mappiness: natural environments and in-the-moment happiness 266George MacKerron and Susana Mourato15 Legacy effects and individual heterogeneity in the relationship betweenhealth and wellbeing 283Peter Howley16 Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonicprice data: the case of wind turbines 297Christian Krekel17 Happiness and energy supply 318Heinz Welsch18 Green with satisfaction: the relationship between pro-environmentalbehaviours and subjective wellbeing 329Kate Laffan19 Happiness and green lifestyle 349Heinz Welsch20 How environmental ethics affect the consumption–wellbeing relationship:evidence from Japan 367Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi21 An empirical assessment of the indigenous Sumak Kawsay (living well):the importance of nature and relationships 385Carmen Amelia Coral-Guerrero, Jorge Guardiola and Fernando Garc.a-Quero22 Mother Earth and household welfare functions of First Nations peoples ofCanada 399Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin ZhengPART III CONCLUSION23 Happiness in retrospect and prospect 422Bruno S. FreyIndex 431