Community And Quality Of Life

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048122578

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III by M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz Pdf

Community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators continue to gain attention and interest in their use as many communities and regions design and apply them. Evolving from early use as data systems, indicators are increasingly being integrated into overall planning and other public policy activities. Their use is found not only in monitoring and evaluation applications, but also in the context of increasing citizen partici- tion in guiding communities towards achieving desired goals. Indeed, the emphasis in many indicator applications now includes linking actions to outcomes – making sure that the indicators are integrated, useful and effective in helping communities address QOL issues. The use of QOL indicators to consider a full spectrum of c- munity and regional well-being is exciting and the focus on integration is certain to bring new and innovative applications to the forefront. This is the third book in a series covering best practices in community QOL indicators. Each volume presents individual cases (chapters) of communities at the local or regional levels that have designed and implemented community indicators programs. In Volume I, we present eight chapters from a variety of contexts – from the county level in the U. S. , to the large megalopolis of Sao Paulo, to looking at a cross section of communities throughout Europe. Also included are three chapters from Canada, a leader in applying community indicator systems.

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy,Don Rahtz,Dong-Jin Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402022029

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by M. Joseph Sirgy,Don Rahtz,Dong-Jin Lee Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Ridzi,Chantal Stevens,Lyle Wray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031069406

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by Frank Ridzi,Chantal Stevens,Lyle Wray Pdf

This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume. It focuses on the theme of the Community Indicators Consortium 2020 Summit, as a significant venue for the advancement of the practice and theory of community indicators work. It covers the conference's theme of “community resilience”, which is the capacity of all of a community’s elements to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. In keeping with the practical, “best cases” emphasis of this book series, the editors incorporate a case-based approach to chapters discussing how specific indicators, indices or series of indicators can lead to better decisions and outcomes to help communities adapt and transform in the face of challenges, helping them prepare for both the expected and the unexpected to sustain and improve quality of life, including technology and open source approaches to data sharing and data-focussed collaboration; evolving approaches that use shared indicators to improve overall community well-being and quality of life; research related to community indicators and policy, application, research, and/or practice; and techniques and approaches to measure resilience. This volume is of interest to social scientists, management professionals, social workers and policy makers working on various aspects of community indicators of quality of life and well-being. Chapter “The Cost of Sea Level Rise for the Island Community of Vinalhaven, Maine: Spurring action through collaborative data analysis” is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see licence information in the chapters.

Author : Meg Holden,Rhonda Phillips,Chantal Stevens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319546186

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII by Meg Holden,Rhonda Phillips,Chantal Stevens Pdf

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.

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don R. Rahtz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Quality of life
ISBN : OCLC:182585956

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Community Quality-of-life Indicators by M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don R. Rahtz Pdf

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400705357

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V by M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz Pdf

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).

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Geography,Committee on Identifying Data Needs for Place-Based Decision Making
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309082600

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Community and Quality of Life by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Geography,Committee on Identifying Data Needs for Place-Based Decision Making Pdf

"Quality of life"..."livability"..."sense of place." Communities across America are striving to define these terms and to bring them to life, as they make decisions about transportation systems and other aspects of planning and development. Community and Quality of Life discusses important concepts that undergird community life and offers recommendations for collaborative planning across space and time. The book explores: Livability as an ensemble concept, embracing notions such as quality of place and sustainability. It discusses how to measure the "three legs" of livability (social, economic, ecological) while accounting for politics and personal values. And the book examines how to translate broad ideas about livability into guidelines for policymaking Place as more than location, including the natural, human-built, and social environments. The book discusses the impact of population changes over time, the links between regional and local identity, and other issues Tools for decision making in transportation and community planning. It reviews a variety of decision models and tools such as geographic information systems (GIS)â€"as well as public and private sources of relevant data. Including several case examples, this book will be important to planners, planning decision makers, planning educators and students, social scientists, community activists, and interested individuals.

Author : Megha Budruk,Rhonda Phillips
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048198610

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Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management by Megha Budruk,Rhonda Phillips Pdf

While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known. The applicability of indicator systems for natural resource and natural resource area management within the parks and recreation arena is very high, including urban parks and recreation programs and their influence on quality of life. Tourism is also an area that needs much more work in terms of assessing impacts as well as developing indicators for gauging progress in the long term. All three areas are an integrated discipline and most programs throughout the developed world are housed co-jointly. There are several researchers across the globe who are conducting innovative work in these areas. The editors feel that a volume on the topic will spur additional interests as well as serve to lead the research efforts.

Author : Seung Jong Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030896430

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Public Happiness by Seung Jong Lee Pdf

We all strive for personal happiness in one way or another, but what about public happiness? What does public happiness mean and what role can governments and public policies play? The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of old governance paradigms and even before this pandemic, increasing inequalities and frustration with the old GDP-centric growth paradigm have fueled dissatisfaction with and distrust of governments. This book suggests a new path towards public happiness as a potential solution. The book builds a theory of public happiness as a distinct concept from individual happiness, borrowing especially from Eastern philosophy. It provides an overview of the efforts so far to go “beyond GDP” – including measurement and exploration of the determinants of happiness – and how these efforts have fallen short of expectation. Lastly, the book sketches out what a public happiness policy might look like and identifies the factors of a successful happiness policy.

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401784701

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI by M. Joseph Sirgy,Rhonda Phillips,Don Rahtz Pdf

This book is the sixth in a series covering bet practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The cases in this volume 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. ​

Author : Rhonda Phillips,Cecilia Wong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789402408782

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Handbook of Community Well-Being Research by Rhonda Phillips,Cecilia Wong Pdf

This Handbook brings together foundational and leading-edge research exploring dimensions of improving quality of life in communities of place. Social indicators and other assessment techniques will be explored, including from the framework of community perspectives which is concerned with enhancing quality of life for community members. As part of this trans-disciplinary work, participation, engagement, and empowerment will be key concepts presented. Along with capacity building and service provision, these elements influence community well-being and will be considered along with subjective and objective assessment approaches. Researchers from around the globe share their work on this important topic of community well-being, bringing together a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Those working in the areas of public policy, community development, community and social psychology, urban and regional planning, and sustainable development will find this volume particularly useful for the array of approaches presented.

Author : Joseph Sirgy,Don Rahtz,David Swain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 904810792X

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by Joseph Sirgy,Don Rahtz,David Swain Pdf

This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This volume builds on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases describing communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements included are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, and the planning of community indicators.

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031102080

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by M. Joseph Sirgy Pdf

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.

Author : Dennis Raphael,Brenda Steinmetz,Rebecca Renwick,Community Quality of Life Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Community development
ISBN : OCLC:426209644

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How to Carry Out a Community Quality of Life Project by Dennis Raphael,Brenda Steinmetz,Rebecca Renwick,Community Quality of Life Project Pdf

Author : Fritz Wagner,Roger W. Caves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136512551

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Community Livability by Fritz Wagner,Roger W. Caves Pdf

What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/alternatives to the elderly, the significance of walkability as a factor in developing a livable and healthy community, the importance of good open space providing for human activity and health, restorative benefits, the importance of coordinated land use and transportation planning, and the relationship between livability and quality of life. While much of the discussion of this topic is usually theoretical and abstract, Wagner and Caves use case studies from North America, Brazil and the United Kingdom to provide substantive examples of initiatives implemented across the world. This book fills an important gap in the literature on livable communities and at the same time assists policy officials, professionals and academics in their quest to develop livable communities.