Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II

✍ Scribed by J. Benjamin Warner (auth.), Professor of Marketing M. Joseph Sirgy, Professor of Marketing Don Rahtz, Professional Staff David Swain (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series 28
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in this series is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This second volume continues to build on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases (chapters). The cases in both volumes describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, the planning of community indicators, the actual indicators that were selected, the data collection process, the reporting of the results, and the use of the indicators to guide community development decisions and public policy.

This series will be of great value to community planners, urban planners, city planners, regional planners, quality-of-life researchers and researchers in public administration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Jacksonville, Florida, Experience....Pages 1-22
Indicators as a Structural Framework for Social Change....Pages 23-42
Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica....Pages 43-60
A Measure and Method to Assess Subjective Community Quality of Life....Pages 61-73
Perception and Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Florence, Italy....Pages 75-125
City of Winnipeg Quality-of-Life Indicators....Pages 127-176
Sustainable Seattle: The Case of the Prototype Sustainability Indicators Project....Pages 177-201
Using Community Indicators to Improve the Quality of Life for Children: The Sacramento County Children’s Report Card....Pages 203-227
Living in a Post-Apartheid City: A Baseline Survey of Quality of Life in Buffalo City....Pages 229-247
Making Community Indicators Accessible Through the Census Information Center: Howard University, Portals to the Community, and the New American University....Pages 249-266
Quality Indicators for Progress: A Guide to Community Quality-of-Life Assessments....Pages 267-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-329

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences, general; Quality of Life Research; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Ecotoxicology; Development Economics; Environmental Economics