Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-14

   3. Theoretical Foundations

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      Pages 15-43

   4. An Example

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      Pages 45-62

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Organizing

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      Pages 65-81

   3. Making Decisions About Indicators

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      Pages 83-115

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Data Collection

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      Pages 119-139

   3. Data Analysis

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      Pages 141-165

   4. Data Reporting

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      Pages 167-174

   5. Promotion

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      Pages 175-186

   6. Follow-Up

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      Pages 187-195

5. Back Matter

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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects. Chapter 2 creates a sample community indicator project as a template of the entire process. Chapter 3 describes the planning process: how to identify sponsors, secure funding, develop an organizational structure, select a quality-of-life model, select indicators, and so on. Chapter 4 focuses on data collection. Finally, Chapter 5 describes efforts related to dissemination and promotion of community indicators projects. Written by a stalwart in the field of quality-of-life research, this book provides the tools of sound community project planning for quality-of-life researchers, social workers, social marketers, community research organizations, and policy-makers.

• Concept of Just Society
• Planning
• Community Quality-of-Life Indicators
• Initiating Community Indicators Projects
• Defining Concepts of Community QOL Indicators
• Developing a Budget
• Preparing Reports
• Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches

“The book is theoretically consistent, methodologically precise, and clear, and it further includes examples that allow the reader to have a clear vision … . This book can be defined as extremely useful and definitely up-to-date … . My congratulations to Prof. Sirgy on this new book that only reaffirms his academic excellence … since this text book is and it will be greatly useful to the new generation of academics, researchers, professionals, and policy-makers.” (Graciela Tonon, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (3), 2023)

• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

  M. Joseph Sirgy

M. Joseph (Joe) Sirgy is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) and Extraordinary Professor at the WorkWell Research Unit at North West University – Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa). He has published extensively in the area of marketing, business ethics, and quality of life (QOL). His awards include: International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies’ (ISQOLS’) Distinguished Fellow Award, ISQOLS’ Distinguished QOL Researcher, Academy of Marketing Science’s (AMS) Distinguished Fellow Award, AMS’ Harold Berkman Service Award, Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Teaching Excellence Award/Holtzman Outstanding Educator Award and University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, the EuroMed Management Research Award, and the Macromarketing Society’s Robert W. Nason Award. Best paper awards include articles published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, the Journal of Travel Research, and Applied Research in Quality of Life. His editorial responsibilities include co-founding editor of Applied Research in Quality of Life, editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Macromarketing, and co-editor of the ISQOLS-Springer book series Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making.

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