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Contents: Foreword Andrew Oswald Introduction David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch Part I: Social sciences, happiness and the environment 1. Economics, well-being and happiness: an historical perspective Luigino Bruni 2. World Database of Happiness: A 'findings archive' Ruut Veenhoven 3. Spatial Variation in Life Satisfaction: A Happiness Puzzle Mona Ahmadiani, Finbarr Brereton, Susana Ferreira and Mirko Moro 4. Happiness and Environmental Economics Heinz Welsch 5. Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: An environmental social sciences approach Jianjun Tang, Honghao Ren and Henk Folmer Part II: Case-studies on happiness and the environment 6. Cross-country variations in subjective wellbeing explained by the climate David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz 7. Natural Disasters and Self-Reported Wellbeing Empirical Evidence for Rainfall Extremes in the United Kingdom Michael Berlemann, Judith Regner and Jascha Tutt 8. Happiness and Forest-Attacking Invasive Alien Species Benjamin Jones 9. Happiness and air pollution Arik Levinson 10. The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang 11. Noise and subjective wellbeing David Fujiwara and Ricky Lawton 12. Measuring the wellbeing and health impacts of sewage odour David Fujiwara, Iulian Gramatki and Kieran Keohane 13. The Effect of Green Areas on Life Satisfaction: A Comparison of Subjective and Objective Measures Teresa Ruckelshauss 14. Mappiness: natural environments and in-the-moment happiness George MacKerron and Susana Mourato 15. Legacy effects and individual heterogeneity in the relationship between health and well-being Peter Howley 16. Valuing Energy Infrastructure Externalities Using Wellbeing and Hedonic Price Data: The Case of Wind Turbines Christian Krekel 17. Happiness and Energy Supply Heinz Welsch 18. Green with satisfaction: The relationship between pro-environmental behaviours and subjective wellbeing Kate Laffan 19. Happiness and Green Lifestyle Heinz Welsch 20. How environmental ethics affect the consumption-well-being relationship: evidence for Japan Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi 21. An empirical assessment of the indigenous Sumak Kawsay (living well): the importance of nature and relationships Carmen Amelia Coral-Guerrero, Jorge Guardiola and Fernando Garcia-Quero 22. Mother Earth and Household Welfare Functions of First Nations Peoples of Canada Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng Part III: Conclusion 23. Happiness in Retrospect and Prospect Bruno S. Frey Index