Geography of Happiness

Eric Vaz is a tenured Professor at Ryerson University, Canada. He serves as the President of the Canadian Regional Science Association. His research chiefly focuses on the interaction of regional science with geographic analysis in the Anthropocene.

• Chapter 1. Happiness Geography: Defining the field (Eric Vaz).- Part I. Regional Challenges.- Chapter 2. A Spatial Analysis of the Instagram hashtag #happy: An assessment of Toronto (Eric Vaz).- Chapter 3. The subjective well-being in North Africa and the impacts on agriculture and urban land (Azzeddine Bellout).- Part II. Territorial Challenges.- Chapter 4. Researching quality of life in old age: some conceptual and methodological principles (Jose Sao Jose).- Chapter 5. Peripheral retail expansion: social implications and spatial inequalities The case of the Île-de-France region (André Torre).- Part III. Location Challenges.- Chapter 6. Sustainable Cities, Quality of Life and Mobility-Related Happiness (Karima Kourtit).- Chapter 7. Tourism, Climate Change and Wellbeing: The Products’ Diversity as an Opportunity (Andre Samora-Arvela).- Chapter 8. Tourism, Senses and Well-being.