Culture and Subjective Well-Being (Well Being and Quality of Life) by Edward Diener, Eunkook M. Suh Culture and Subjective Well-Being (Well Being and Quality of Life) by Edward Diener, Eunkook M. Suh PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people i...
PDF⋙ Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation by National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council (U S )
Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation by National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council (U S ) Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation by National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council (U S ) PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.S. Department of the Interior's congressional mandate to require the use of best available and safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations. In the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Congress directs the Secretary of the Interior to regulate oil and gas operations in federal waters. The act mandates that the Secretary "shall require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the us...