Full Description
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.
Contents
Part I: Everybody Counts.- Noel Keough, Sustainable Calgary State of Our City Reporting: Pathways to a More Sustainable, Just and Resilient City.- Donald Matteson & Tracy Sawicki, We Can't Fix What We Don't Know is Wrong: Developing Community Indicators for Often-Ignored Populations.- Bijan Kimiagar, The most important voices are the ones we hear from the least: Community-based assessments in collaboration with families and community-based organizations.- Terry S Atkinson & Kimberly L. Anderson, From Idea to Reality: Creating and Implementing an Early Literacy Action Plan With Community Partners.- Part II: Resilience Planning.- Patrick Brixler, Community Resilience in Austin, Texas: Measuring social vulnerability and multi-hazard exposure to drive collective action.- Lubaina Rangwala, Data-led Resilience Planning for Localised Action.- Susie Maloney, Beyond a 'tick-box approach' for local government climate change adaptation: Learning through doing with M&E.- Meghan Gabil, The Cost of Sea Level Rise for Vinalhaven, ME: Spurring Action through Collaborative Data Analysis.- Part III: Aligning Community Indicators with Professional Standards.- Patsy Kraeger, Rhonda Phillips and Frank Ridzi, The Community Foundation - Community Indicator Interface: Exploring Connections and Applications.- Peg Thomas, Advancing SDG-Strategy 8.B.1 by Developing And Measuring the Impact of a Specific Youth Workforce Development Model Called Earn And Learn.
