Italian Studies on Quality of Life
暫譯: 意大利生活品質研究

本卷提供了意大利生活品質研究學派在實質和方法論上如何處理福祉和生活品質的概述。它討論了各種主題，例如公平和可持續的福祉、生活方式、經濟和福利的組織，以及與小城鎮生活品質測量、機構透明度和防止貪腐指標相關的方面。本卷中的章節來自於2015年和2016年在意大利佛羅倫斯舉行的意大利生活品質研究協會（AIQUAV）會議上發表的論文。本卷分為三個部分。第一部分專注於生活品質研究的方法和指標，第二部分則探討社會可持續性、生活方式、文化方面和地方應用，第三部分則關注經濟、福利和生活品質。本卷收錄的貢獻具有跨學科的範疇，反映了全球化世界的複雜性。

Adele Bianco is Associate Professor of General Sociology at the University of Chieti-Pescara. PhD in Sociology of Development (University of Pisa, 1994), she has been lecturer and vising professor in several foreign Universities in Germany, Denmark, Kosovo. She was CNR (Italian National Research Center) and CNR NATO Senior fellow (1995-1996). She is Editor in Chief of the Book Series "Studi in Scienze Umane e Sociali" Quodlibet Publishing, Macerata and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainable Development Research and of the scientific board of the "Applied Sociological Theory" Book Series Harmattan Publishing. She is member of the scientific committee of AIQUAV, Italian Association on Quality of life studies. Before getting a permanent position in the Italian University, she worked for ten years a civil servant at the Italian Ministry of Labour and was EUR.E.S. (European Employment Service) Adviser for the European Commission.
Paola Conigliaro is PhD candidate in Applied Social Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is a statistical technician at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). She had previous experiences as researcher in various public and private institutions. Main subjects of those researches were organisational studies, labour sociology, social inclusion through work, organisational well-being. She also has a good experiece as manager of social cooperatives. In recent years she devoted the research activity to social sustainability, decent work and subjective well-being. She was member of the Scientific Commission of the BES (Equitable and Sustainable Well-being) project, with the role of technical support. On behalf of the AIQUAV (Italian Association of Quality of Life Studies) she is member of the working group on Goal 8 (SDGs) of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (AsviS).
Michela Gnaldi is Associate Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Perugia, Italy. She has spent the initial part of her career as a research fellow at the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow (UK) and as a statistician at the National Foundation for Educational Research (UK). Over the last 15 years has taken part in and led several international and national projects. She builded up research collaborations in Europe and beyond and authored over 60 research products published in international journals and encyclopedias on the themes of composite indicator construction, psychometrics, corruption prevention measurement, vote behaviour estimation. She is editor for Springer and FrancoAngeli, associate editor of Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics (RCE), member of the editorial board of Journal of Well-Being Assessment (Springer), and member of the scientific committee of AIQUAV, Italian Association on Quality of life studies.

阿黛爾·比安科（Adele Bianco）是基耶蒂-佩斯卡拉大學（University of Chieti-Pescara）的一般社會學副教授。她於1994年在比薩大學（University of Pisa）獲得發展社會學博士學位，曾在德國、丹麥和科索沃的多所外國大學擔任講師和訪問教授。她曾是意大利國家研究中心（CNR）及CNR NATO的高級研究員（1995-1996）。她是Quodlibet Publishing出版的《人文與社會科學研究》（Studi in Scienze Umane e Sociali）書系的主編，並且是《國際可持續發展研究期刊》（International Journal of Sustainable Development Research）及《應用社會學理論》（Applied Sociological Theory）書系的科學委員會成員。她也是意大利生活品質研究協會（AIQUAV）的科學委員會成員。在獲得意大利大學的永久職位之前，她在意大利勞動部擔任了十年的公務員，並且是歐洲委員會的歐洲就業服務（EUR.E.S.）顧問。

保拉·科尼利亞羅（Paola Conigliaro）是羅馬薩賓納大學（Sapienza University of Rome）應用社會科學的博士候選人。她是意大利國家統計局（Istat）的統計技術員，並曾在多個公私機構擔任研究員。這些研究的主要主題包括組織研究、勞動社會學、透過工作實現社會包容以及組織福祉。她在社會合作社的管理方面也有良好的經驗。近年來，她將研究活動專注於社會可持續性、體面工作和主觀福祉。她曾是BES（公平與可持續福祉）項目的科學委員會成員，擔任技術支持角色。代表意大利生活品質研究協會（AIQUAV），她是意大利可持續發展聯盟（AsviS）第8項可持續發展目標（SDGs）工作組的成員。

米凱拉·尼爾迪（Michela Gnaldi）是意大利佩魯賈大學（University of Perugia）政治科學系的社會統計副教授。她的職業生涯初期在格拉斯哥大學（University of Glasgow，英國）統計系擔任研究員，並在英國國家教育研究基金會（National Foundation for Educational Research）擔任統計師。在過去的15年中，她參與並主導了多個國際和國內項目。她在歐洲及其他地區建立了研究合作，並在國際期刊和百科全書上發表了60多篇有關綜合指標構建、心理測量、腐敗預防測量和投票行為估計的研究成果。她是Springer和FrancoAngeli的編輯，《意大利應用統計期刊》（Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics，RCE）的副編輯，以及《福祉評估期刊》（Journal of Well-Being Assessment，Springer）的編輯委員會成員，並且是意大利生活品質研究協會（AIQUAV）的科學委員會成員。