This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This volume builds on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases describing communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements included are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, and the planning of community indicators.
| ISBN | 1402046243 | | Part volume | Best Cases | | ISBN13 | 9781402046247
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Weight (grammes) | 1450 | | Imprint | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Published in | New York, NY | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 28 | | Publication date | 01 Feb 2006 | | Series title | Social Indicators Research Series | | Library of Congress | 2007618068 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | DEWEY | 305 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | Pages | 344 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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1. The Jacksonville, Florida Experience, Benjamin Warner.- 2. The Boston Indicators Projects, Charlotte Kahn.- 3. Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica, Genevieve Bertone, Shannon Clements, Dean Kubani and Jennifer Wolch.- 4. Development of Community-Level Measures of Youth Assets, David Murphy.- 5. Perception and Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Florence, Italy, Filomena Maggino.- 6. City of Winnipeg Quality of Life Indicators, Peter Hardi and Lazslo Pinter.- 7. Sustainable Seattle: The Case of the Prototype Sustainability Indicators Project, Meg Holden.- 8. Using Community Indicators to Improve the Quality of Life for Children: The Sacramento County (CA) Children's Report Card, Nancy Findeisen.- 9. Living in a Post-apartheid City: A Baseline Survey of Quality of Life in Buffalo City, Robin Richards and Ellen Kamman.- 10. Modeling Urban Quality of Life in South East Queensland by Linking Subjective and Objective Indicators, Rod McCrea, Tung-Kai Shyy and Robert Stim.- 11. Making Community Indicators Accessible through the Census Information Center: Howard University, Portals to the Community, and the New American University, Rodney Green.- 12. Quality Indicators for Progress: A Guide to Community Quality-of-Life Assessments, Marian Chambers and David Swain.
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