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Contents

FOREWORD
Viktória Szirmai: The History of Researching 'Social Well-being' in Hungary

I. INTRODUCTION
Viktória Szirmai: Social Well-being Issues in Europe: the Possibility of a More Competitive Europe
Gyöngyvér Hervainé Szabó: International Public Policies on Well-Being

II. SPATIAL INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING ISSUES
Júlia Schuchmann - Zsuzsanna Váradi: The Socio-Demographic Structure of the Hungarian Metropolitan Regions
Viktória Szirmai - Zoltán Ferencz: The Spatial Social Characteristics of Hungarian Metropolitan Regions and the Transformation of the Core-Periphery Model
Márton Berki - Levente Halász: Social Well-being Characteristics and Spatial-Social Determinations
Katalin Kovács - Judit Timár - Monika Mária Váradi: Well-being Deficits in Disadvantaged Regions

III. CONCLUSIONS
Viktória Szirmai: How Can We Get from Spatial Inequalities to Social Well-being?
Literature

APPENDIX
Description of the Examined Major Hungarian Cities
Map
Index
List of Tables and Figures
Authors of the Book

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Blurb

The 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 economy, and economic processes but also on social contexts, on people's everyday living conditions, and above all, on their well-being. The Hungarian 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 characteristics of social well-being with their determinants including the highly important role of territorial and local living conditions.

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