On January 2017, the book “Life-oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy”, Edited by Prof. Junyi Zhang, was formally published by Springer. This is the first book in literature to present a general picture of life choice research from the interdisciplinary perspective.
Even though various dialogues between different disciplines occur here and there, unfortunately, behavioral disciplines with truly interdisciplinary features could not be found in literature for supporting urban policy decisions, which are usually associated with various life domains. The life-oriented approach argues that people’s various life choices, being attributable to quality of life (QOL), are interrelated of each other. In other words, one life choice may not only results from other life choice(s), but also affect other life choice(s). Such interdependencies are essential to understand human decisions.
This book aims to present the life-oriented approach as one of the “common languages” to facilitate the “talk” between different stakeholders for improving people’s QOL.
The life-oriented approach also provides a fundamental theory for supporting research on young people.