Gaël Brulé – författare

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB). As wealth is related to economic, environmental and social features of societies, this volume serves as an important resource in understanding economic and SWB. It further discusses a variety of experiences and consequences of inequalities of wealth. Through the availability of wealth data in recent international surveys, this volume explores the multiple relations between wealth and SWB. Structured around four main pillars the book presents analysis of the topic at various levels such as theoretical and conceptual, methodological and empirically, ending with a section on distribution and policies.

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB). As wealth is related to economic, environmental and social features of societies, this volume serves as an important resource in understanding economic and SWB. It further discusses a variety of experiences and consequences of inequalities of wealth. Through the availability of wealth data in recent international surveys, this volume explores the multiple relations between wealth and SWB. Structured around four main pillars the book presents analysis of the topic at various levels such as theoretical and conceptual, methodological and empirically, ending with a section on distribution and policies. 

This book asks what kind of impacts innovations and technology have on subjective well-being and happiness. It presents the state of the art both in terms of results and theoretical questioning on these topics. It proposes a new concept: innovation that leads to greater happiness, and highlights new research in this area. In so doing, it addresses a less researched area in the field of well-being research. The authors state that notwithstanding the indisputable positive contributions of innovation and technology, there are also drawbacks, which need equal attention in research.This book is of interest to students and researchers of quality of life and well-being, as well as innovation research.

This open access book provides a unique and timely perspective at the intersection of healthcare sustainability, digital transformation, and responsible innovation. It explores sustainable development in healthcare systems through reducing their environmental impact. Some of the strategies this book explores are: lean, normative and procedural (frugal innovation); and engineering, technological (artificial intelligence). This book discusses the significant contribution of the healthcare industry to global environmental degradation, accounting for an estimated 4–8% of total carbon emissions in many countries. This book addresses the gap between the intention to change and the lack of practical frameworks and integrated approaches to guide meaningful change. it does this by proposing a systemic and actionable vision that combines the low-resource ingenuity of frugal innovation with the optimization potential of AI and provide heuristics to engage in reducing impacts in the healthcare sector.Building on the author’s previous work on innovation and well-being and ongoing work within the healthcare sector, this book serves as a concise, interdisciplinary guide for rethinking how we deliver care in an ecologically responsible and socially equitable manner. It invites readers to envision a future where smarter, simpler healthcare systems help heal not only people but also the planet.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers working in this field are aware of potential weaknesses and pitfalls of these metrics. Contributors to this volume reflect on different factors influencing quantification, such as scale size, wording, language, biases, and cultural comparability in order to raise awareness on the tools and on their conditions of use.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers working in this field are aware of potential weaknesses and pitfalls of these metrics. Contributors to this volume reflect on different factors influencing quantification, such as scale size, wording, language, biases, and cultural comparability in order to raise awareness on the tools and on their conditions of use.