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Winter, February 2012, Number 109

This issue begins with the second of our continuing series of reviews of Web-Based social reports – a review of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index (HDI).  The second item in this issue is an announcement of the change in the date and location of the 2012 Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies from ISQOLS President Heinz-Herbert Noll.  Other announcements include Wolfgang Glatzer’s Global Handbook of Well-Being project and a tribute to the 75th birthday of Wolfgang Zapf, one of the pioneers of the social indicators movement and a developer of the System of Social Indicators for Germany

REVIEW

Reviews of Web-Based Social Reports, Review 2: The United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index (HDI) ~ Kenneth C. Land

A review of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index (HDI).

CONFERENCES IN 2012

The 11th ISQOLS Conference "Discovering New Frontiers in Quality of Life Research" Venice, Italy, November 1 to 4, 2012 ~ Heinz-Herbert Noll

Message from ISQOLS President Heinz-Herbert Noll

New Doctoral Course and Research in Quality of Life in Argentina ~ Graciella Tonon

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Measuring the World’s Well-Being—A Global Handbook of Well-being and Quality of Life

In Recognition of Wolfgang Zapf’s 75th Birthday

Call For Papers Applied Research in Quality of Life, The Official Journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies

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