Overview
- Contains cases reflecting best practices in community indicators projects
- Cases are related to overall community well-being and quality of life
- Includes research on issues such as societal happiness, and dimensions of planning and community development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being (CQLWB)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Organizing Concepts and Collaboration in Community Indicators
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Community Indicators Identifying Different Types of Disadvantage
Keywords
- 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
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII
Editors: Meg Holden, Rhonda Phillips, Chantal Stevens
Series Title: Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54618-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54617-9Published: 24 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85437-3Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54618-6Published: 13 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2520-1093
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1107
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 184
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Public Administration, Social Work and Community Development, Business Strategy/Leadership