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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

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Authors:
  1. M. Joseph Sirgy

    1. Office of Quality-of-Life Measurement, Pamplin College of Business, Marketing Department, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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  2. Don Rahtz

    1. School of Business, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

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  3. Dong-Jin Lee

    1. Department of Marketing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 22)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Vital Signs: Quality-of-Life Indicators for Virginia’s Technology Corridor

    • Terri Lynn Cornwell
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Sustainable Community Model Approach to the Development and Use of Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life Indicators

    • William T. Grunkemeyer, Myra L. Moss
    Pages 29-52

  4. Taking Indicators to the Next Level: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Launches Quality of Life Compacts

    • Karen Barsell, Elisa Maser
    Pages 53-74

  5. A Collaborative Approach to Developing and Using Quality of Life Indicators in New Zealand’s Largest Cities

    • Kath Jamieson
    Pages 75-109

  6. 2002 Hennepin County Community Indicators Report: Aligning Community Indicators with Government Mission, Vision and Overarching Goals

    • Misty Lee Heggeness, Paul Buschmann, Thomas Walkington
    Pages 111-131

  7. The State of the City Amsterdam Monitor: Measuring Quality of Life in Amsterdam

    • Peggy Schyns, Jeroen Boelhouwer
    Pages 133-152

  8. A Three-Decade Comparison of Residents’ Opinions on and Beliefs about Life in Genesee County, Michigan

    • Robin Widgery
    Pages 153-182

  9. Creating an Index to Evaluate a Region’s Competitiveness

    • Beth Jarosz, Michael D. Williams
    Pages 183-207

  10. Toward a Social Development Index for Hong Kong: The Process of Community Engagement

    • Richard J. Estes
    Pages 209-234

  11. Measuring Sustainability and Quality-of-Life in the City of Zurich

    • Marco Keiner, Barbara Schultz, Willy A. Schmid
    Pages 235-245

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 247-253
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Office of Quality-of-Life Measurement, Pamplin College of Business, Marketing Department, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    M. Joseph Sirgy

  • School of Business, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

    Don Rahtz

  • Department of Marketing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

    Dong-Jin Lee

About the authors

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).

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