Full Description
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 increasing use of information technology, produce positive community change and sustain these efforts over time. The work presented here spans North American and Australian community work and demonstrates how the field of community indicators has undergone a rapid evolution in only a few decades. Today as in their original formulations, community indicators projects are designed to gauge the social, economic and physical health and well-being of communities.
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.
