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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 28)

Editors: Sirgy, M. Joseph; Rahtz, Don; Swain, David

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4625-4

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4624-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2006

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Jacksonville, Florida, Experience

Warner, J. Benjamin

Pages: 1 –22

[In 1985, the Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI) and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce created a unique tool to measure and promote improvement in the quality of life (QOL) in Jacksonville, Florida. The Quality of Life Progress Report, published annually for the last 20 years, has...
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Chapter 2Indicators as a Structural Framework for Social Change

Kahn, Charlotte

Pages: 23 –42

[In the Greater Boston citistate, known in the 19th century as the “Athens of America,” it should be easy, in the Information Age, to locate good local data about things that matter. The data do exist, of course, but they are exceedingly difficult to find in a timely and useful format, even for...
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Chapter 3Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica

Bertone, Genevieve; Parry, Shannon C.; Kubani, Dean; Wolch, Jennifer

Pages: 43 –60

[The City of Santa Monica is a unique coastal community, surrounded by the natural beauty of the Santa Monica Mountains and the intense urban landscape of Los Angeles. Its 85,000 residents are tightly packed into an 8.3 square mile city boundary. The view from its thriving downtown and quiet...
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Chapter 4A Measure and Method to Assess Subjective Community Quality of Life

Sirgy, M. Joseph; Rahtz, Don

Pages: 61 –73

[In today’s community, members are influenced by a variety of domains that make up the total community in which they live. Organizations from a variety of cities are trying to monitor the community’s well-being for a variety of domains. In Baltimore, The Enterprise Foundation Initiative uses 40...
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Chapter 5Perception and Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Florence, Italy

Maggino, Filomena

Pages: 75 –125

[In 2003, the City of Florence (Italy) in conjunction with the Department of Statistics at the University of Florence conducted research regarding the citizens’ perception and evaluation of the quality of life (QOL) in the city of Florence. The focus of the study was to identify residents’ needs...
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Chapter 6City of Winnipeg Quality-of-Life Indicators

Hardi, Peter; Pintér, László

Pages: 127 –176

[People value the quality of life (QOL) in Winnipeg. They appreciate the size and pace of the city and its amenities; they are strongly attached to their neighborhoods; and they feel that Winnipeg is a great place to raise a family. They would like to see this QOL maintained for future...
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Chapter 7Sustainable Seattle: The Case of the Prototype Sustainability Indicators Project

Holden, Meg

Pages: 177 –201

[As an organization, Sustainable Seattle (S2) can be considered to have gone through seven main phases to date (see Table 1). The organization’s inception occurred with a forum organized in late 1990 by a nongovernmental organization visiting Seattle from Washington, DC.1 The keenest participants...
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Chapter 8Using Community Indicators to Improve the Quality of Life for Children: The Sacramento County Children’s Report Card

Findeisen, Nancy

Pages: 203 –227

[While speaking at a convocation of community leaders at the Community Services Planning Council’s (CSPC) Health and Human Services Institute in Sacramento, California, cultural anthropologist Jennifer James told the audience that the leaders of the future will be the ones who can “tell the...
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Chapter 9Living in a Post-Apartheid City: A Baseline Survey of Quality of Life in Buffalo City

Richards, Robin; Kamman, Ellen

Pages: 229 –247

[Community quality of life (QOL) is an elusive concept to define. Its meaning depends on where you live, where you work (if you work), and who you are (for example, your gender, class, and culture). This view of QOL is supported by other researchers like Proshansky and Fabian (1986). Like other...
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Chapter 10Making Community Indicators Accessible Through the Census Information Center: Howard University, Portals to the Community, and the New American University

Green, Rodney D.; Bennett, Maybelle T.; Kurban, Haydar; Morris, Lorenzo; Verharen, Charles C.

Pages: 249 –266

[Discussions about community indicators often focus more on the discovery about knowledge and less on the integration, communication, and application of the knowledge embodied in community indicators. Yet such indicators are intended to inform practitioners at every level of the community, and...

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