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The Quality of Life: Systems Approaches
Proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics
- 1st Edition - November 15, 2013
- Editor: G.E. Lasker
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 7 4 2 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 9 0 0 4 - 4
Applied Systems and Cybernetics covers the proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics. The book presents several studies that cover the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteApplied Systems and Cybernetics covers the proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics. The book presents several studies that cover the application of systems research and cybernetics in improving the quality of life. Majority of the materials in the text tackle various aspects of quality of life in relation to systems and cybernetics, such as living space, future prospects, work, education, politics, law, ethics and values, culture and ethnicity, and social systems. The selection also presents articles that cover the elemental properties of quality of life, such as the concept, views, indicators, and dimension. The book will be of great interest to any scientists regardless of disciplines, since it covers the main purpose of science, the improvement of quality of life.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Alphabetical Listing of Authors
Index of Major Subject Areas
I. Inaugural Addresses
Systems, Cybernetics, and Subjectivity
Intelligent Machines: They are Coming
Personal Cybernetics as a System for Self Realization of the Individual in Industry
II. Quality of Life: Concepts & Views
Quality of Life: The Process of Development of Legitimate Goals
An Engineer's View of the Quality of Life
Progress, Stratification and Quality of Life: A View from Anthropology
Quality of Family Life as Perceived by Student Teachers
III. Quality of Life: Dimensions & Indicators
Subjectivity and Objectivity as Co-Essential Dimensions of the Quality of Life
Subjective and Objective Factors in Social Indicator and Quality of Life Models
Social Positions, Social Inequality and Subjective Well-Being
The Management of Human Resources in Business Systems: An Influential Variable in the Quality of Life
Simplicity: A Perspective on the Quality of Life
IV. Improving Quality of Life: Methodological Concepts
A Framework of Reference to Improve the Quality of Life
Speeding up Improvement
Is it Possible to Model Quality of Life?
Creation of Employment, Territorial Distribution and Environment Protection: Multiple Criterion for the Short Term Programming of Industrial Estates
V. The Human System and the Quality of Life
The Quality of Life and Emerging Directions of Change in Our Conception of Human Systems
The Human System, Its Ecological Niche and the Quality of Life: A Field of Study
Human Systems: Needs, Requirements, Environments and Quality of Life
General Systems Theory in the Conscious Evolution of Mankind
Improving Human Consciousness
VI. Quality of Life and the Individual Person
The Human Knowledge Process as a System Forming General System
Development of Knowledge and the Quality of Life
The Impact of the Development of Personality on the Concept of the Quality of Life
The Quality of Life in the Context of a Basic Person-Environment System
The Quality of Life in Relation to the Changing Image of Man
Setting Changes and the Quality of Human Life
SAETTEAS: The Quality of Life Chain through Regional Development
VII. Social Systems and the Quality of Life
The Myopia of Social Systems
Quality of Interaction & Participation: On Model Power in Industrial Democracy & Computer Networks Cybernetics for the Quality of Society
Information Automation, Human Service Delivery, and Quality of Life
Working Toward Quality of Life: Primary Prevention of Drug Abuse
Sociolinguistic Analysis and Organizational Change, the Linguist's Potential for Improving the Quality of Modern Life
VIII. Social Values, Ethics, Lifestyles and Basic Needs in Quality of Life
Functionality, Values Ordering and Decision in Social Systems
Basic Needs, Ethics, and Quality of Life
Values, Lifestyles and Basic Beliefs as Influences on Perceived Quality of Life
Scientific Thought and the Problem of Steering Societies
A Calendar of Human Change
IX. Quality of Life: Cross-National & Cross-Cultural Analysis
Income, Energy Consumption and State Social Quality of Life in U.S.A. 1960, 1970 and 1978
Energy, Economic Growth and Quality of Life: A Cross-National Trend Analysis
Quality of Life Indicators - The Happiest Americans
Transportation Impacts of Rationing on Individual Travel Decisions in a Quality of Life Context
Culture, the Self-Fulfi11ing Prophecy, and Quality of Life in the Black Belt Region of the Southeastern United States
Quality of Life in Two Cultures: Springfield, Illinois and Aix-en-Provence, France Shin
Underlying Dimensions in the Change of Perceived Quality of Life: Results from the Edmonton Area Studies 1975 - 1979
Perception of Well Being: A Comparison of Puerto Rican and Colombian Sugar Cane Workers
X. Law and the Quality of Life
Law and the Quality of Life — A Human Rights Perspective
Environmental Law and the Quality of Life
International Organization and the Protection of the Human Environment: From the Stockholm Conference into the Eighties
The Role of Law in the Development of Lesser Developed Countries
XI. Quality of LIFE Education
Quality of Life Education: A Challenge to the Systems Inquiry Community
Education: The Key to the Transition from a Consuming Society to a Conserving Society
System Management Workbooks — Tools for Quality of Life Education
Potentialities for 'Quality of Life' Improvement via High Technology-Integrated Learning/Information/ Telecommunication Systems
Learning to Meet Nutritional Needs: A Global Perspective
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Teaching of the Non-Official Languages in Manitoba
Community Educational Planning in Mexico
Integrating Education and Work
XII. Quality of in Political Perspective
Protecting the Quality of Life: The Role of Government in Reconciling Man-Made and Naturally Evolving Systems
Perceived Quality of Life and Political Activity
The Quality of Life and Public Confidence in Government
Political Economy and the Quality of Life: Toward a Cybernetic Approach
XIII. Quality of Working Life
A New Model for the Quantitative Measurement of the Quality of Working Life
Measuring the Quality of Working Life: A Pilot Investigation
The Marriage of the Social Scientist and Industrial Engineer
Sociotechnics of Autonomous Work Groups as Social Systems
Information Identity and the Role of Work
Productivity and Quality of Life Improvement
Improving the Quality of Working Life (QWL)
Through Information Systems Development
XIV. Human Kinetics, Sport and Quality of Life
Sport and Quality of Life
Sport's Contribution to the Quality of Life: Capacity Versus Current Practices in Cross- National Perspective
Sports Events in Cultural Perception of "The Good Life"
Ludus, Leisure Time, and the Quality of Life
Automatic Control Systems for Management of Training Process of Soviet Olympic Teams
EMG and Computer Programming to Improve the Quality of Life: Lower Back Pain
L'Education Permanente via l'Activité Physique Au Troisieme Age
XV. Quality of Life and the Future
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Quality of Life in the Future
The Future Role of Interactive Simulation as a Device to Improve Household Quality of Life Decisions: Where Dynamic Forecasting is Going
The Futurist Literature and the Emergence of a 'New Paradigm' Implications for Building More Humane Kinds of Social-Political Institutions Emphasizing the Quality of Life
Level Five Prognostication
Television and the Future of Quality of Life
XVI. Quality in Living Spaces
Quality of Living Spaces: A Comprehensive Analysis of Two City Planning Systems
The Architecture and the Quality of Life: A Systems Approach to Design
The Impact of Technology on the Physical Growth and Social Development of Cities Within the German Democratic Republic
XVII. Energy Problems and Quality of Life
Nuclear Power and 'Unconventional' Energy Sources: Canada, the Past, Present and Future
XVIII. Peace and Quality of Life Through Cultural Development
Aims and Structure of the Sociocultural Organization
The Significance of Meaning in Violence and Nonviolence
An Anthropological Understanding of Non-Aggressive Social Systems
Adaptive Regulation in Contemporary Society
A Systems Approach
Synergetic Games: A Contribution to the Abolition of War
Peace and Quality of Life
- No. of pages: 606
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 15, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483174235
- eBook ISBN: 9781483190044
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