Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV [electronic resource] /edited by M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, Don R. Rahtz.
by Sirgy, M. Joseph [editor.]; Phillips, Rhonda [editor.]; Rahtz, Don R [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Community Quality-of Life Indicators, Best Cases: 2Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.Edition: 1.Description: XX, 216p. online resource.ISBN: 9789048122431.Subject(s): Quality of Life | Regional planning | Development Economics | Quality of Life -- Research | Human Geography | Social Sciences, general | Quality of Life Research | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Development Economics | Human GeographyDDC classification: 306 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Improving the Quality of Life in a City of Phoenix, Arizona Neighborhood Through Collaborative Investment -- The Long Island Index -- Lessons from a Community-Based Process in Regional Sustainability Indicator Selection: The Case of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory -- Mental Health Indicator Parity: Integrating National, State, and Local Data -- The Importance of Local Information: Quality of Life Indicators in Bristol -- Understanding the Political Significance of Community Sustainable Development Indicators in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study from Sobantu Township, Pietermaritzburg -- Jacksonville’s Race Relations Progress Report: Creating Change through Community Indicators -- Gender Equality and Quality of Life: Examples of Best Practices from Nine -- Quality of Life Through Innovation Indicators: The Case of Peripheral Suburbs of Sydney.
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.
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