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Community quality-of-life indicators : best cases IV / M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, Don R. Rahtz, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Community quality-of-life indicators : best cases series ; 2.Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Verlag, 2009Description: xvii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9048122422
  • 9789048122424
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.14 22
Contents:
1. : Improving the Quality of Life in a City of Phoenix, Arizona Neighborhood Through Collaborative Investment / John Burk and Richard C. Knopf -- 2. : The Long Island Index / Ann Golob -- 3. : Lessons from a Community-Based Process in Regional Sustainability Indicator Selection: The Case of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory / Meg Holden, Cameron Owens and Clare Mochrie -- 4. : Mental Health Indicator Parity: Integrating National, State, and Local Data / Deepak Prabhakar, Raquel Y. Qualls-Hampton, Rachel Jackson, Kathryn M. Cardarelli -- 5. : The Importance of Local Information: Quality of Life Indicators in Bristol / Samantha Shepherd and Sarah McMahon -- 6. : Understanding the Political Significance of Community Sustainable Development Indicators in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study from Sobantu Township, Pietrmaritzburg / Alan Terry -- 7. : Jacksonville's Race Relations Progress Report: Creating Change Through Community Indicators / J. Benjamin Warner -- 8. : Gender Equality and Quality of Life: Examples of Best Practices from Nine European Cities (The EQUALABEL Project) / Almudena Moreno Minguez -- 9. : Quality Of Life Through Innovation Indicators: The Case of Peripheral Suburbs of Sydney / Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Tavis Potts.
Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. : Improving the Quality of Life in a City of Phoenix, Arizona Neighborhood Through Collaborative Investment / John Burk and Richard C. Knopf -- 2. : The Long Island Index / Ann Golob -- 3. : Lessons from a Community-Based Process in Regional Sustainability Indicator Selection: The Case of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory / Meg Holden, Cameron Owens and Clare Mochrie -- 4. : Mental Health Indicator Parity: Integrating National, State, and Local Data / Deepak Prabhakar, Raquel Y. Qualls-Hampton, Rachel Jackson, Kathryn M. Cardarelli -- 5. : The Importance of Local Information: Quality of Life Indicators in Bristol / Samantha Shepherd and Sarah McMahon -- 6. : Understanding the Political Significance of Community Sustainable Development Indicators in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study from Sobantu Township, Pietrmaritzburg / Alan Terry -- 7. : Jacksonville's Race Relations Progress Report: Creating Change Through Community Indicators / J. Benjamin Warner -- 8. : Gender Equality and Quality of Life: Examples of Best Practices from Nine European Cities (The EQUALABEL Project) / Almudena Moreno Minguez -- 9. : Quality Of Life Through Innovation Indicators: The Case of Peripheral Suburbs of Sydney / Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Tavis Potts.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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