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Best Cases
M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, Don Rahtz
ISBN: 9789048122561
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Springer
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This book contains best practices of community quality-of-life indicator systems. Coverage includes history of the community indicators work, the planning of community indicators, and the use of the indicators to guide development decisions and public policy.
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.
| ISBN | 9048122562 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9789048122561
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1030 | | Publisher | Springer | | Published in | Dordrecht | | Imprint | Springer | | Series ISSN | 1 | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Community Quality-of Life Indicators | | Publication date | 14 Aug 2009 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | DEWEY | 306 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | Pages | 206 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Preface - Chapter 1: Connecting Outcomes to Indicators: The Santa Cruz County California Community Assessment Project (CAP) by DEANNA ZACHARY - Chapter 2: Pace of Life and Quality of Life: The Slow City Charter by HEIKE MAYER and PAUL KNOX - Chapter 3: The Clark County Monitoring System -- An Early Warning Indicator System for Clark County Nevada by SHEILA CONWAY, JEREMY AGUERO, and IRENE NAVIS - Chapter 4: Evaluating Progress toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfield's Redevelopment with Community Quality-of-Life by CHRISTOPHER A. DESOUSA, BENJAMIN GRAMLING, and KEVIN LEMOINE - Chapter 5: Examining the Spatial Distribution of Urban Indicators in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Do Spatial Effects Matter? By MONICA HADDAD - Chapter 6: Quality of life & Cultural Diversity in Peel Region (Ontario, Canada) by SRIMANTA MOHANTY - Chapter 7: Measuring Quality of Life in Canadian Municipalities by JOHN BURRETT - Chapter 8: The Indices of Community Well-being for Calgary Community Districts: A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Quality of Life Reporting by DEREK COOK and JOHN TE LINDE - Bibliographic Resources
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