Community Qualityoflife Indicators: Best Cases Iv (Community Qualityoflife Indicators, 2),Used

Product Description Community indicators projects are plentiful. These projects capture the quality of life in towns, cities, counties, metropolitan regions, and larger geographic regions. Community qualityoflife (QOL) indicators are increasingly being integrated into overallplanningandotherpublicpolicyactivities.Thecommunityindicatorsproject reports are used not only in monitoring and evaluation applications but also in the context of increasing citizen participation in guiding communities towards achieving desired goals. This is the fourth 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 indi tors programs. In Volume IV, we present nine chapters from a variety of contexts: cities such as the City of Phoenix (Arizona, USA), Jacksonville (Florida, USA), and Bristol (UK), suburban communities areas such as Long Island (New York, USA) and Sydney (Australia), larger regions such as Vancouver (Canada), and townships such as Sobantu (South Africa). From the Back Cover This book contains 'best practices' of community qualityoflife indicator systems implemented in various communities throughout the world. 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. About the Author M. JOSEPH (JOE) SIRGY is a social/consumer/organizational psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the areas of consumer behavior, marketing communications, business ethics, and quality of life. He has published extensively in social/behavioral science, managerial, and systems related journals. Examples include Social Indicators Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Behavioral Science, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Systems Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Advertising, Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Tourism and Travel Marketing, Research in Marketing, Journal of Business and Psychology, Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, International Journal of Management, Journal of Housing and Builtin Environment, Applied Research in Quality of Life, and Journal of Happiness Studies. He is the author/editor of numerous books including: SOCIAL COGNITION AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983); MARKETING AS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (New York: Prager Publshers, 1984); SELFCONGRUITY (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986); NEW DIMENSIONS OF QUALITYOFLIFE/MARKETING RESEARCH (Bridgeport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995); CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Books, 1997); INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall Publishers); HANDBOOK OF QUALITYOFLIFE RESEARCH: AN ETHICAL MARKETING PERSPECTIVE (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001); THE PSYCHOLOGY OF QUALITY OF LIFE (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002); SHOPP