Community Quality-Of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II

ISBN-13: 9781402046247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 332 str.

M. J. Sirgy; Don Rahtz; David Swain

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

M. J. Sirgy 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 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.

Blurb

This book is 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 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.

This series will be of great value to community planners, urban planners, city planners, regional planners, quality-of-life researchers and researchers in public administration.