Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research (a New Book Series by Springer Published in Cooperation with ISQOLS)

This book series builds on the first and forthcoming handbook of quality-of-life (QOL) research edited by Professor Kenneth Land (Duke University). This work involves chapters covering a wide range of topics in the fields of quality-of-life studies and social indicators research. Professor Land�s handbook is scheduled for completion at the end of 2008/beginning part of 2009. This handbook is based on a joint venture between ISQOLS and Springer Publisher. The new book series makes an attempt to encourage new handbooks that focus on capturing the QOL research literature in specific life domains, for specific populations, or in relation to specific disciplines or industry sectors.

Specifically, with respect to reviews of the research in QOL in specific life domains, handbooks can be developed to capture the research literature in specific life domains such as family well-being, financial well-being, social well-being, spiritual well-being, leisure well-being, work well-being, consumer well-being, health-related quality-of-life, among others.

In relation to reviews of the research in QOL for specific populations, handbooks can be developed that focus on elderly well-being, children well-being, the well-being of the poor, the well-being of the disabled, the well-being of women, among others.

In regards to reviews of the research in QOL in relation to specific disciplines or industry sectors, handbooks can be developed that focus on tourism and quality of life, marketing and quality of life, labor relations and quality of life, healthcare and quality of life, sports/recreation and quality of life, food/nutrition and quality of life, media and quality of life, education and quality of life, transportation and quality of life, telecommunication and quality of life, public administration/policy and quality of life, the institutions of public safety and quality of life, among others.

Another aim of the handbooks book series is to promote handbooks involving measures of quality of life and well-being. For example, handbooks of well-being measures can be developed in relation to subjective well-being, health-related quality of life, national accounts, community QOL indicators, children well-being, elderly well-being, among others. These handbooks would serve QOL researchers in significant ways providing annotated bibliographies of well-established measures, methods, and scales that have been propagated in target areas.

Book Series Editor:
      M. Joseph Sirgy, Ph.D.
      Social/Consumer/Organizational Psychologist
      Professor of Marketing and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow
      Website: www.marketing.pamplin.vt.edu/facultyFolder/joeSirgy

Editorial Board: M. Joseph Sirgy (Virginia Tech, USA), Rhonda Phillips (State University of New York-Plattsburg, USA), Don Rahtz (College of William and Mary, USA), Alex Michalos (University of Northern British Colombia, Canada), Dong-Jin Lee (Yonsei University, Korea), Stephan Grzeskowiak (St. Louis University, USA), Dave Webb (University of Western Australia, Australia), Wolfgang Glatzer (Goethe University, Germany), and Laura Camfield (Oxford Department of International Development, QUeen Elizabeth House).

Aims & Scope of the Series:
The primary goal of the handbooks series is to provide QOL researchers with extensive bibliographic resources in the form of literature reviews of the many sub-disciplines or areas of research within the growing field of QOL research. Most of these QOL researchers are academics working in specific areas of research or research practitioners working in government agencies or industry associations.

Specifically the series aims:

• To be considered the preferred information source among QOL researchers regarding the art and science of QOL studies and social indicators research.
• To be recognized not just as 'book on the shelf' but rather, a 'book in the hand', or at least, 'on the desk'. Thus, more than just a reference book.

For submissions of book proposals, contact
Joe Sirgy, e-mail: sirgy@vt.edu; phone: 540-231-5110 (USA); fax: 540-231-3076 (fax); postal mail: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech); Pamplin College of Business, Department of Marketing, 2025 Pamplin Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0236, USA