Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Holden, Meg (Editor), Phillips, Rhonda (Editor), Stevens, Chantal (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesCommunity Quality-of-Life and Well-Being,
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319546186
ISSN2520-1093
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-54618-6
Physical DescriptionVIII, 184 p. 47 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Rhonda Phillips, Meg Holden and Chantal Stevens
  • Introduction; Chantal Stevens, Lyle Wray
  • PART I. Community Indicators Identifying Different Types of Disadvantage
  • Chapter 1. Environmental Justice in Australia: Measuring the Relationship between Industrial Odour Exposure and Community Disadvantage; Lucy Gunn, Billy Greenham, Melanie Davern, Suzanne Mavoa, Elizabeth Jean Taylor and Mark Bannister
  • Chapter 2. Aligning Local and Regional Data to Achieve a More Inclusive Economy: A Northeast Ohio Model; Emily Garr Pacetti
  • Chapter 3. Addressing Disparities and Improving the System of Care for Veterans Through the Community Assessment Process; Samantha Green, Melanie Espino
  • Chapter 4. Economic Issues for Women in Texas; Jennifer Lee, Frances Deviney
  • PART II. Comprehensiveness and Collaboration in Community Indicators
  • Chapter 5. Comprehensive Sustainability Indicators: The Houston Sustainability Indicators Program; Lester King
  • Chapter 6. Collaboration to Promote Use of Community Indicators: Communication is Key; Craig Helmstetter, Paul Mattessich, Ruth Hamberg and Nancy Harzler
  • Chapter 7. Getting to Groundbreaking, But No Further: Network Failure in a Housing Indicators Collaborative; Meg Holden and Daniel Sturgeon
  • Chapter 8. Community Indicators and the Collective Goods Criterion for Impact; Frank Ridzi.