Springer Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV: 2

Part of a series on community quality-of-life indicator systems implemented throughout the world, this volume details cases of communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. From the Back Cover 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. 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 Built-in 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); SELF-CONGRUITY (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986); NEW DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE/MARKETING RESEARCH (Bridgeport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995); CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Books, 1997); INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Publishers); HANDBOOK OF QUALITY-OF-LIFE 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); SHOPPER, BUYER, AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (Cincinatti, OH: Atomicdog Publishing, 2002); ADVANCES IN QUALITY-OF-LIFE THEORY AND RESEARCH (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003); COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST CASES (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004); WELL-BEING MARKETING: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND APPLICATIONS )Soeul, Korea: Pakyoungsa Publishing, 2005); SHOPPER, BUYER, AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, 3RD EDITION (Cincinatti, OH: Atomicdog Publishing, 2006); STRATEGIC MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO IMC (Cincinnati, OH: Atomicdog Publishing/Thomson, 2006); COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST CASES II (Dordecht, The Netherlands: Springer Publishers, 2006), and COMMUNITY QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS: BEST PRACTICES III (Blacksburg, VA: ISQOLS, 2007). He presently serves as an editor of the Quality-of-Life/Marketing section of t