From spatial inequalities to social well-being

This book entitled 'From Spatial Inequalities to Social Well-being' was born in the spirit of a new concept saying that development does not merely depend on economic processes but also on social contexts, on people's everyday living conditions, and above all, on their well-being. The Hugarian special characteristics of social well-being are not known yet, so we undertook the task of conducting a survey on them. For our efforts, two large empirical sociological researches provided help: a survey of 5,000 people conducted in nine Hungarian metropolitan regions (Budapest, Debrecen, Győr, Kecskemét, Miskolc, Nyíregyháza, Pécs, Szeged and Székesfehérvár) in 2014, and another survey of 1,600 people conducted in the disadvantaged micro-regions of Sárbogárd, Sarkad, Sásd and Fehérgyarmat. The results revealed the local characterisitcs of social well-being with their determinants including the highly important role of territorial and local living conditions. --