Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases

by M. Joseph Sirgy (Editor), Don Rahtz (Editor), Dong-Jin Lee (Editor)

Overview

This book is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. The cases 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.

Community planners, community indicators researchers and urban planning specialists will find this book very helpful in learning from communities that have done community indicators work and have done it well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048166121
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Social Indicators Research Series , #22
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

M. Joseph Sirgy is a personality/social/industrial psychologist who has written extensively on the subject of quality-of-life. He is the director of the Office of Quality-of-Life Measurement (OQOLM) and a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the USA. He is also the executive director of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Vital Signs: Quality-of-Life Indicators for Virginia's Technology Corridor Terri Lynn Cornwell 1

The Sustainable Community Model Approach to the Development and Use of Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life Indicators William T. Grunkemeyer Myra L. Moss 29

Taking Indicators to the Next Level: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Launches Quality of Life Compacts Karen Barsell Elisa Maser 53

A Collaborative Approach to Developing and Using Quality of Life Indicators in New Zealand's Largest Cities Kath Jamieson 75

2002 Hennepin County Community Indicators Report: Aligning Community Indicators with Government Mission, Vision and Overarching Goals Misty Lee Heggeness Paul Buschmann Thomas Walkington 111

The State of the City Amsterdam Monitor: Measuring Quality of Life in Amsterdam Peggy Schyns Jeroen Boelhouwer 133

A Three-Decade Comparison of Residents' Opinions on and Beliefs about Life in Genesee County, Michigan Robin Widgery 153

Creating an Index to Evaluate a Region's Competitiveness Beth Jarosz Michael D. Williams 183

Toward a Social Development Index for Hong Kong: The Process of Community Engagement Richard J. Estes 209

Measuring Sustainability and Quality-of-Life in the Cityof Zurich Marco Keiner Barbara Schultz Willy A. Schmid 235

Index 247