This volume explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, safety, and socioeconomic well-being of community residents of selected countries around the world. It is built on an overarching framework of studying community well-being, applied here to the analyses of one of the most...

Chapter 1: The Significance of Wellness and Its Presence in the Life of the Romanian Young Generation -- Chapter 2: Systemic risk causality among economic sectors -- Chapter 3: Destination management as determinant of tourist attractiveness -- Chapter 4: Mapping the performance of smart cities...

We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...