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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III [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).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Community Quality-of Life Indicators, Best Cases: 1Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.Edition: 1.Description: online resource.ISBN: 9789048122578.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
Contents:
Connecting Outcomes to Indicators: The Santa Cruz County California Community Assessment Project (CAP) -- Pace of Life and Quality of Life: The Slow City Charter -- The Clark County Monitoring System – An Early Warning Indicator System for Clark County, Nevada -- Evaluating Progress Toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukee’s Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfield’s Redevelopment with Community Quality-of-Life -- Examining the Spatial Distribution of Urban Indicators in São Paulo, Brazil -- Quality of Life and Cultural Diversity in Peel Region (Ontario, Canada) -- Measuring Quality of Life in Canadian Municipalities -- The Indices of Community Well-Being for Calgary Community Districts: A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Quality of Life Reporting.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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Connecting Outcomes to Indicators: The Santa Cruz County California Community Assessment Project (CAP) -- Pace of Life and Quality of Life: The Slow City Charter -- The Clark County Monitoring System – An Early Warning Indicator System for Clark County, Nevada -- Evaluating Progress Toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukee’s Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfield’s Redevelopment with Community Quality-of-Life -- Examining the Spatial Distribution of Urban Indicators in São Paulo, Brazil -- Quality of Life and Cultural Diversity in Peel Region (Ontario, Canada) -- Measuring Quality of Life in Canadian Municipalities -- The Indices of Community Well-Being for Calgary Community Districts: A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Quality of Life Reporting.

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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