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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV

✍ Scribed by John Burk, Richard C. Knopf (auth.), Prof. M. Joseph Sirgy, Dr. Rhonda Phillips, Prof. Don R. Rahtz (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Series: Community Quality-of Life Indicators 2
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book contains "best practices" of community quality-of-life indicator systems implemented in various communities throughout the world.

The cases in this volume 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Improving the Quality of Life in a City of Phoenix, Arizona Neighborhood Through Collaborative Investment....Pages 1-24
The Long Island Index....Pages 25-58
Lessons from a Community-Based Process in Regional Sustainability Indicator Selection: The Case of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory....Pages 59-80
Mental Health Indicator Parity: Integrating National, State, and Local Data....Pages 81-109
The Importance of Local Information: Quality of Life Indicators in Bristol....Pages 111-120
Understanding the Political Significance of Community Sustainable Development Indicators in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study from Sobantu Township, Pietermaritzburg....Pages 121-140
Jacksonville’s Race Relations Progress Report: Creating Change through Community Indicators....Pages 141-161
Gender Equality and Quality of Life: Examples of Best Practices from Nine....Pages 163-190
Quality of Life Through Innovation Indicators: The Case of Peripheral Suburbs of Sydney....Pages 191-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-213

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Development Economics; Human Geography

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