TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III T2 - Community Quality-of Life Indicators, Best Cases SN - 9789048122578 AV - HN25 U1 - 306 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands KW - Quality of Life KW - Regional planning KW - Development Economics KW - Research KW - Human Geography KW - Social Sciences, general KW - Quality of Life Research KW - Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning N1 - Connecting Outcomes to Indicators: The Santa Cruz County California Community Assessment Project (CAP) -- Pace of Life and Quality of Life: The Slow City Charter -- The Clark County Monitoring System An Early Warning Indicator System for Clark County, Nevada -- Evaluating Progress Toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukees Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfields Redevelopment with Community Quality-of-Life -- Examining the Spatial Distribution of Urban Indicators in So Paulo, Brazil -- Quality of Life and Cultural Diversity in Peel Region (Ontario, Canada) -- Measuring Quality of Life in Canadian Municipalities -- The Indices of Community Well-Being for Calgary Community Districts: A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Quality of Life Reporting N2 - This book contains "best practices" of community quality-of-life 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2257-8 ER -