Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V

✍ Scribed by Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell, Kerry Sheldon (auth.), M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, D. Rahtz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Series: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ 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-xxx
Comprehensive Local Community Development via Collaborative Quality of Life Planning: Best Practices from Two San Diego Neighborhoods....Pages 1-19
Developing and Sustaining a Community Information System for Central Indiana: SAVI as a Case Study....Pages 21-46
Sustaining the Operations of Community Indicators Projects: The Case of Twin Cities Compass....Pages 47-66
Quality of Life at a Finer Grain: The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership....Pages 67-96
A Sustainable Well-Being Initiative: Social Divisions and the Recovery Process in Minamata, Japan....Pages 97-111
The American Human Development Index: Results from Mississippi and Louisiana....Pages 113-136
The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project: Measuring a Diverse Region....Pages 137-154
Portraits of Peel – A Community Indicators Portal Project....Pages 155-169
The Development of Quality-of-Life Indicators in Rural Areas in Iran: Case Study – Khaveh Shomali District, Lorestan Province....Pages 171-191
Working for Water: A Baseline Study on the Impact of a South African Public Works Program in Improving the Quality of Life of Program Beneficiaries....Pages 193-217
Integrating Tourism into Sustainable Urban Development: Indicators from a Croatian Coastal Community....Pages 219-265
Quality of Life in Buffalo City: The Changing Position of African Women in a Post-apartheid City....Pages 267-292
Monitoring Indicators of Living Conditions in a South African Urban Community....Pages 293-318
Community Indicators in Action: Using Indicators as a Tool for Planning and Evaluating the Health and Wellbeing of a Community....Pages 319-338
Back Matter....Pages 339-342

✦ Subjects

Quality of Life Research; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning