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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V

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Editors:
  1. M. Joseph Sirgy

    1. Pamlin College of Business, Dept. Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA

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  2. Rhonda Phillips

    1. School of Community, Resources & Development, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

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  3. D. Rahtz

    1. Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA

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  • This book in the context of the overall book series contains cases that reflect best practices in community indicator projects
  • Edited by a team of experts in the field
  • Contains latest findings on community QOL

Part of the book series: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators (CQLI, volume 3)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Comprehensive Local Community Development via Collaborative Quality of Life Planning: Best Practices from Two San Diego Neighborhoods

    • Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell, Kerry Sheldon
    Pages 1-19

  3. Developing and Sustaining a Community Information System for Central Indiana: SAVI as a Case Study

    • David J. Bodenhamer, James T. Colbert, Karen Frederickson Comer, Sharon M. Kandris
    Pages 21-46

  4. Sustaining the Operations of Community Indicators Projects: The Case of Twin Cities Compass

    • Craig Helmstetter, Paul Mattessich, Andi Egbert, Susan Brower, Nancy Hartzler, Jennifer Franklin et al.
    Pages 47-66

  5. Quality of Life at a Finer Grain: The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

    • G. Thomas Kingsley, Kathryn L.S. Pettit
    Pages 67-96

  6. A Sustainable Well-Being Initiative: Social Divisions and the Recovery Process in Minamata, Japan

    • Takayoshi Kusago
    Pages 97-111

  7. The American Human Development Index: Results from Mississippi and Louisiana

    • Sarah Burd-Sharps, Patrick Nolan Guyer, Ted Lechterman, Kristen Lewis
    Pages 113-136

  8. The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project: Measuring a Diverse Region

    • Brian Lockwood, Jason Martin, Cathy Yinghui Cao, Michelle Schmitt
    Pages 137-154

  9. Portraits of Peel – A Community Indicators Portal Project

    • Srimanta Mohanty
    Pages 155-169

  10. The Development of Quality-of-Life Indicators in Rural Areas in Iran: Case Study – Khaveh Shomali District, Lorestan Province

    • Mohammad Reza Rezvani, Hossain Mansourian
    Pages 171-191

  11. Working for Water: A Baseline Study on the Impact of a South African Public Works Program in Improving the Quality of Life of Program Beneficiaries

    • Robin Richards
    Pages 193-217

  12. Integrating Tourism into Sustainable Urban Development: Indicators from a Croatian Coastal Community

    • Branko I. Cavric
    Pages 219-265

  13. Quality of Life in Buffalo City: The Changing Position of African Women in a Post-apartheid City

    • Leslie Bank, Ellen Kamman
    Pages 267-292

  14. Monitoring Indicators of Living Conditions in a South African Urban Community

    • Valerie Møller, Sarah Radloff
    Pages 293-318

  15. Community Indicators in Action: Using Indicators as a Tool for Planning and Evaluating the Health and Wellbeing of a Community

    • Melanie T. Davern, Sue West, Sally Bodenham, John Wiseman
    Pages 319-338

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 339-342
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About this book

The proposed book is a sequel to volume 1-4 of Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases. The first volume, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases was edited by M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and Dong-Jin Lee and published in 2004 by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Social Indicators Research Book Series (volume 22). The second volume, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II was edited by M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and David Swain and published in published in 2006 by Springer in the Social Indicators Research Book Series (volume 28). The third and fourth volumes, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III and Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV, were edited also by M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, and Don Rahtz and published in 2009 by Springer in the ISQOLS Community Quality-of-Life Indicators Best Cases Book Series (volumes 1 and 2).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pamlin College of Business, Dept. Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA

    M. Joseph Sirgy

  • School of Community, Resources & Development, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

  • Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA

    D. Rahtz

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