Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The History, Status and Future of the Community Indicators Movement

   • Lyle Wray, Chantal Stevens, Meg Holden

   Pages 1-16

3. Organizing Concepts and Collaboration in Community Indicators

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Role of Subjective Well-Being as an Organizing Concept for Community Indicators

      • Christopher Barrington-Leigh

      Pages 19-34

   3. Community Indicators and the Collective Goods Criterion for Impact

      • Frank Ridzi

      Pages 35-52

   4. Collaboration to Promote Use of Community Indicators: Communication Is Key

      • Craig Helmstetter, Paul Mattessich, Ruth Hamberg, Nancy Hartzler

      Pages 53-68

   5. Aligning Local and Regional Data to Achieve a More Inclusive Economy: A Northeast Ohio Model

      • Emily Garr Pacetti

      Pages 69-86

   6. Getting to Groundbreaking, but not Build Out: From Formation to Failure in a Regional Housing Indicators Collaborative

      • Meg Holden

      Pages 87-110

4. Community Indicators Identifying Different Types of Disadvantage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Environmental Justice in Australia: Measuring the Relationship Between Industrial Odour Exposure and Community Disadvantage

      • Lucy Dubrelle Gunn, Billy Greenham, Melanie Davern, Suzanne Mavoa, Elizabeth Jean Taylor, Mark Bannister

      Pages 113-133

   3. Addressing Disparities and Improving the System of Care for Veterans Through the Community Assessment Process

      • Samantha Green, Melanie Espino

      Pages 135-147

   4. Economic Issues for Women in Texas

      • Jennifer Lee, Frances Deviney

      Pages 149-165

   5. Comprehensive Sustainability Indicators: The Houston Sustainability Indicators Program

      • Lester O. King

      Pages 167-184

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators. The case studies and analysis in this volume demonstrate how community indicators projects today operate within a need to amplify the voice of disadvantaged communities, seriously explore the increasing use of information technology, produce positive community change and sustain these efforts over time. The work presented here spans North American and Australian community work and demonstrates how the field of community indicators has undergone a rapid evolution in only a few decades. Today as in their original formulations, community indicators projects are designed to gauge the social, economic and physical health and well-being of communities. 

• Community Quality of Life Indicators
• Indicator Programs in Communities
• Well-Being of Communities
• Measuring Social and Economic Health in Communities
• Measuring Physical Health in Communities
• Societal Happiness
• Quality of Life Domains
• Dimensions of Planning
• Community Development
• Comprehensive Sustainability Indicators
• Promote Use of Community Indicators

• Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

  Meg Holden

• Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Rhonda Phillips

• King County Auditor’s Office, Seattle, USA

  Chantal Stevens

Meg Holden (PhD, New School for Social Research) is a social scientist whose research investigates the promises and results of sustainability planning in cities around the world. She is an Associate Professor of urban studies and geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Meg served as a board member of the Community Indicators Consortium from 2011-2016 and she currently serves as editorial board member of the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life as well as the Springer book series on Community Quality of Life and Wellbeing. Meg is the author of Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the common place (Routledge, 2017).

Rhonda Phillips, Ph.D., FACIP, has research and outreach efforts that focus on quality of life and well-being related to community and economic development. At Purdue University, she serves as inaugural Dean of the Honors College and a professor in the Agricultural Economics Department. She is author or editorof over 20 books, including Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy, and Introduction to Community Development.  Formerly a Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Rhonda also served as director and professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. She is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and immediate past president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. 



Chantal Stevens is a Performance Management Analyst for the King County Auditor's Office where she also holds the position of Program Oversight Manager for the Countywide Community Forums, an innovative collaboration between the public and King County to improve public engagement. She previously served on the CIC board from 2004-2007, and again in 2012. Chantal was formerly the Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, a pioneer inthe development of community indicators. She was the co- lead of the first conference dedicated to the exploration of CI-PM integration, and is currently an active advocate for community indicators and public engagement as a key element of a functioning performance management system at King County. She holds a BS and MMA from the University of Washington.

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