Rural Quality of Life

Foreword - Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

1 Introducing rural quality of life - Pia Heike Johansen, Jens Kaae Fisker, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle, Anne Tietjen and Evald Bundgard Iversen

Part I: Everyday life
Framing essay I - Pia Heike Johansen, Jens Kaae Fisker and Martin Phillips
2 Wellbeing for Whom and at Whose Expense: COVID-19 through the Lens of Moral Geographies in Two Rural Colorado Communities - Michael Carolan
3 The difference that rural rhythm makes - Pia Heike Johansen and Jens Kaae Fisker
4 "Everybody loves living here": beyond the idyll in life within the gentrified countryside - Martin Phillips, Darren Smith, Hannah Brooking and Mara Duer
5 Urban-to-rural lifestyle migrants in peripheral Japanese island communities: Balancing quality of life expectations with reality - Simona Zollet and Meng Qu
6 Alaskan Native quality of life: Culture, rurality, and the sacred - Maria Christina Crouch and Jordan P. Lewis

Part II: The built environment
Framing essay II - Anne Tietjen and Jens Kaae Fisker
7 Spatial planning and rural quality of life - Mark Scott
8 Rural placemaking for sustained community well-being - Anne Tietjen and Gertrud Jorgensen
9 The creation of child-friendly spaces for nourishing rural areas: A South-African reflection - Elizelle Juanee Cilliers and Menini Gibbens
10 Art in rural placemaking - Meiqin Wang
11 The contribution of affordable housing to rural quality of life in England - Nick Gallent
12 Planning for quality of life as the right to spatial production in the rurban void - Nils Bjoerling

Part III: Civil society
Framing essay III - Evald Bundgard Iversen
13 The role of civil society in securing self-assessed quality of life in rural areas - Evald Bundgard Iversen, Michael Fehsenfeld and Bjarne Ibsen
14 Rural youth: Quality of life, civil participation, and outlooks for a rural future - Anders Melas, Maja Farstad and Svein Frisvoll
15 The role of civil society in cultural heritage, digitalisation, and the quality of rural life - David Beel and Claire Wallace
16 Volunteering neighbourhood mothers: A capability approach to voluntarism, inclusion and quality of life in rural Norway - Kjersti Tandberg and Jill Merethe Loga
17 A comparison of health-related quality of life in rural and metropolitan areas of Australia: The Contribution of Sport and Physical Activity - Rochelle Eime, Jack Harvey, Melanie Charity and Hans Westerbeek

Part IV: Measuring rural quality of life
Framing essay IV - Henrik Lauridsen Lolle
18 Differences in subjective well-being between rural and urban areas in Denmark - Henrik Lauridsen Lolle
19 Subjective well-being in urban and rural Italy: Comparing two survey waves (2008-2018) - Federica Vigano, Enzo Grossi and Giorgio Tavano Blessi
20 Subjective wellbeing in rural and urban areas under the Covid-19 crisis in France - Marta Pasqualini
21 Using a new method to map quality of life - Rolf Lyneborg Lund
22 Outdoor recreation and the wellbeing of rural residents: Insight from Scotland - Kathryn Colley, Margaret Currie & Katherine N. Irvine
23 Does urban green add to happiness? - Ruut Veenhoven, Nivre Claire Wagner and Jan Ott

24 Conclusions: What have we learned about rural quality of life and how do we procede? - Pia Heike Johansen, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgard Iversen, Henrik Lolle and Jens Kaae Fisker

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• Comunidades rurais
• Planeamento rural
• Geografia humana
• Sociologia

built environment; civil society; community planning; cultural resilience; Everyday rural life; measuring subjective wellbeing; moral geography; rural youth; social diversity; urban discourses