Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

by Sirgy, M. Joseph; Phillips, Rhonda; Rahtz, Don R.

• ISBN13: 9789048122561
• ISBN10: 9048122562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Author Biography

M. JOSEPH (JOE) SIRGY is a social/consumer/organizational psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the areas of consumer behavior, marketing communications, business ethics, and quality of life. He has published extensively in social/behavioral science, managerial, and systems related journals. Examples include Social Indicators Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Behavioral Science, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Systems Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Advertising, Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Tourism and Travel Marketing, Research in Marketing, Journal of Business and Psychology, Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, International Journal of Management, Journal of Housing and Built-in Environment, Applied Research in Quality of Life, and Journal of Happiness Studies. He is the author/editor of numerous books including: SOCIAL COGNITION AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983); MARKETING AS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (New York: Prager Publshers, 1984); SELF-CONGRUITY (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986); NEW DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE/MARKETING RESEARCH (Bridgeport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995); CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Books, 1997); INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Publishers); HANDBOOK OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE RESEARCH: AN ETHICAL MARKETING PERSPECTIVE (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001); THE PSYCHOLOGY OF QUALITY OF LIFE (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002); SHOPPER, BUYER, AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Cincinatti, OH: Atomicdog Publishing, 2002); ADVANCES IN QUALITY-OF-LIFE THEORY AND RESEARCH (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003); COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST CASES (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004); WELL-BEING MARKETING: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND APPLICATIONS )Soeul, Korea: Pakyoungsa Publishing, 2005); SHOPPER, BUYER, AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, 3RD EDITION (Cincinatti, OH: Atomicdog Publishing, 2006); STRATEGIC MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO IMC (Cincinnati, OH: Atomicdog Publishing/Thomson, 2006); COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST CASES II (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Springer Publishers, 2006), and COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST PRACTICES III (Blacksburg, VA: ISQOLS, 2007).He presently serves as an editor of the Quality-of-Life/Marketing section of the Journal of Macromarketing and co-editor-in-chief of Applied Research in Quality of Life. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies in 1995 and is currently serving as its Executive Director. He was also the president of the Academy of Marketing Science (2002-03). In 1992, he received the Distinguished Fellow recognition from the Academy. In 1997, he received the Distinguished Fellow recognition from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. In a recent survey of scholarly productivity in business ethics, he was ranked as 82nd among 2,371 business ethics scholars world-wide. In 2003, the board of directors of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies elected him to receive the highest distinction of the society, namely the Distinguished Quality-of-Life Researcher Award. This is a lifetime award given every 1 and a half years to quality-of-life researchers who achieved excellence and scholarly distinction in quality-of-life research. In 2007, the Academy of Marketing Science has given him the Harold Berkman Service Award for life-time achievement in service of the Academy and the marketing professoriate worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface

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 G++ An Early Warning Indicator System for Clark County Nevada

Evaluating Progress toward Sustainable Development in MilwaukeeG++s Menomonee River Valley

Linking BrownfieldG++s Redevelopment with Community Quality-of-Life

Examining the Spatial Distribution of Urban Indicators in S+úo Paulo

Do Spatial Effects Matter?

Quality of life & Cultural Diversity in Peel Region (Ontario

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

Bibliographic Resources

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