Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

by Sirgy, M. Joseph; Rahtz, Don R.; Swain, David

• ISBN13: 9781402046247
• ISBN10: 1402046243
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in this series is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This second volume continues to build on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases (chapters). The cases in both volumes describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the description 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Jacksonville, Florida, Experience	1	(22)
J. Benjamin Warner
Indicators as a Structural Framework for Social Change	23	(20)
Charlotte Kahn
Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica	43	(18)
Genevieve Bertone
Shannon C. Parry
Dean Kubani
Jennifer Wolch
A Measure and Method to Assess Subjective Community Quality of Life	61	(14)
M. Joseph Sirgy
Don Rahtz
Perception and Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Florence, Italy	75	(52)
Filomena Maggino
City of Winnipeg Quality-of-Life Indicators	127	(50)
Peter Hardi
Laszlo Pinter
Sustainable Seattle: The Case of the Prototype Sustainability Indicators Project	177	(26)
Meg Holden
Using Community Indicators to Improve the Quality of Life for Children: The Sacramento County Children's Report Card	203	(26)
Nancy Findeisen
Living in a Post-Apartheid City: A Baseline Survey of Quality of Life in Buffalo City	229	(20)
Robin Richards
Ellen Kamman
Making Community Indicators Accessible Through the Census Information Center: Howard University, Portals to the Community, and the New American University	249	(18)
Rodney D. Green
Maybelle T. Bennett
Haydar Kurban
Lorenzo Morris
Charles C. Verharen
Quality Indicators for Progress: A Guide to Community Quality-of-Life Assessments	267	(56)
Marian Chambers
David Swain
Contributors	323