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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V

:	Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, Don Rahtz
:	Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789400705357
:	1
:	CHF 89.90
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:	Methoden der empirischen und qualitativen Sozialforschung
:	English

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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).

	Preface	6
	References	10
	Contents	11
	Contributors	13
	About the Authors	16
	1 Comprehensive Local Community Development via Collaborative Quality of Life Planning: Best Practices from Two San Diego Neighborhoods	30
	Introduction	30
	Methodology	32
	The Neighborhoods First Initiative	32
	Quality of Life Indicators and Collaborative Planning Processes	36
	Case Study: Colina Park	36
	Case Study: Greater Logan Heights	41
	Conclusions	45
	References	47
	Select Online Resources Pertaining to Neighborhoods First	47
	2 Developing and Sustaining a Community Information System for Central Indiana: SAVI as a Case Study	49
	Development of SAVI: A Historical Overview	51
	System Design	56
	Data Processing	56
	Data Import	56
	Defining Indicators	57
	Data Delivery	58
	Data Search	58
	Margins of Error	58
	Metadata	59
	Mapping	60
	Graphing and Charting	60
	Quality Control	60
	User Testing	62
	Training and User Support	62
	Training	62
	User Support	64
	Funding and Governance	64
	Funding	64
	Uses of SAVI	67
	Community	67
	Research	68
	The Future of SAVI	71
	Lessons Learned	71
	From Lessons to Practice: Recommended Steps	72
	Develop a Strategic Plan	72
	Acquire, Process, and Package Data	73
	Build or Acquire an Information System for Data Display and Analysis	73
	Establish a Capacity-Building Program	74
	References	74
	3 Sustaining the Operations of Community Indicators Projects: The Case of Twin Cities Compass	75
	Introduction	75
	Background	76
	Brief History	76
	Basic Approach	77
	Initial Impacts on the Community	77
	Budget Overview	79
	Sustaining the Core	80
	Public Web site	80
	Advisory Groups	81
	Forums Convened by Twin Cities Compass	82
	In-Person Presentations	83
	Media	83
	Newsletters	84
	Print Pieces	84
	Social Media	85
	Supporting the Project Through Contractual Work	88
	Conclusion and Lessons Learned	91
	References	93
	4 Quality of Life at a Finer Grain: The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership	95
	Neighborhood Indicators: The Concept	95
	NNIP Institutions and Their Roles	97
	Assembling and Disseminating Neighborhood Data	100
	Developing and Applying Indicators to Advance Community Interests – Overview	104
	Applying the Data to Advance Community Interests – Example Projects	109
	The Work of the Partnership	119
	Implications for National Policy	121
	References	122
	5 A Sustainable Well-Being Initiative: Social Divisions and the Recovery Process in Minamata, Japan	125
	Introduction	125
	Background	127
	Japanese Economic Prosperity Through Industrial Development	127
	Endogenous Community Development	129
	Case Study	130
	Minamata's Struggle and Recovery as Endogenous Development	130
	National Industrialization Strategy and Minamata Disease Breakout	130
	Keys for Community Restoration Through People-Driven Initiatives and Public–Private Partnerships in Minamata	133
	Key 1: Local Leadership and a Vision for a Model Environmental City	134
	Key 2: Government Policy – Environmental Meister	135
	Key 3: Citizen's Actions for a New Development Path – Women's Waste Reduction Groups	135
	Key 4: Jimotogaku, Neighborhood Study Method, and the Practice of Jimotogaku	136
	Conclusion	137
	References	138
	6 The American Human Development Index: Results from Mississippi and Louisiana	140
	Introduction	140
	About Human Development	141
	The American Human Development Index	142
	Modifying the HDI for an Affluent-Country Context	144
	What the HD Index Reveals: Results from Mississippi	146
	Trends in the State Over Time	146
	Variation by County	147
	Variation by Race	149
	Variation by Gender	150
	What the HD Index Reveals: Results from Louisiana	152
	Trends in the State Over Time	152
	Variation by Parish	153
	Variation by Race	156
	Variation by Gender	157
	Implications	160
	Health	160
	Education	161
	Income	162
	Conclusion	162
	References	163
	7 The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project: Measuring a Diverse Region	164
	Introduction	164
	The Philadelphia Metropolitan Region	166
	Building the Database	169
	Reaching MPIP's Publics	171
	MetroPhilaMapper	171
	Publications	175
	MPIP and the Community	176
	Partnerships and Collaborations	176
	Staffing	178
	Challenges	178
	Looking Forward	179
	References	181
	8 Portraits of Peel – A Community Indicators Portal Projec