...Kei Otsuki Purpose – This paper aims to examine the implications of the efforts to promote a quality-oriented economy that incorporates a vision of environmental sustainability and equitable social development. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis builds on a case study of food...

... population, it is pertinent to address their needs and concerns, which have direct impacts on their well‐being and quality of life. Also studies the context of a multi‐racial society. Evaluates the quality of life of the elderly in Singapore in terms of their overall life satisfaction as well...

...Efthalia Dimara; Anastasia Petrou; Dimitris Skuras Farmers’ decision to adopt organic cultivation and create niche markets is their response to the changing notions of quality and the gradual abandonment of the productivist logic in agriculture. This decision is analyzed within a multi‐level social...

...Leslie Armour Economics Lifestyles Quality The social sciences, presumably, are about understanding economic and social systems in the hope that we can learn how to make them better ‐ which means improving the quality of someone’s life and ideally improving everyone’s life. The editor...

... create strains between new demands for information, material goods, services, and freedom, and the effective capacity of societies to meet these new demands. Ethical judgements regarding the good life, the just society, and the quality of relations among people and with nature always serve...