Rhonda Phillips - Community Indicators Measuring Systems

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Edited by

RHONDA PHILLIPS

University of Florida, USA

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Community indicators measuring systems. - (Urban and
regional planning and development)
1. Planning - Statistical methods 2. Social indicators
3. Economic indicators 4. Environmental indicators 5. Planning
- Canada - Statistical methods 6. Social indicators
Statistical methods 7. Economic indicators - Statistical
methods 8. Environmental methods - Statistical methods
I. Phillips, Rhonda
352.3'4'0727

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Community indicators measuring systems / edited by Rhonda Phillips,
p. cm. -- (Urban and regional planning and development series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4005-1
1. Community development-Canada--Evaluation. 2. Community development-United
States-Evaluation. 3. City planning-Canada. 4. City planning-United States. 5. Social
indicators. 6. Economic indicators.7. Environmental indicators. I. Phillips, Rhonda II.
Urban and regional planning and development.

HN110.Z9C635 2004
307.1'416'0971--dc22

2004062399

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-4005-9 (hbk)

SUSAN BRIDGES is a graduate of the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Florida. Her position at Renaissance Planning Group in Tampa, Florida is focused on bicycle- and pedestrian-supportive master planning and design guidelines, transit-oriented design, and waterborne transportation. Other interests include New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development. She previously served as a graduate research assistant with the University of Floridas Center for Building Better Communities.

JEFF CARMICHAEL completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. His background and research interests include integrated assessment and multi-criteria decision modeling, watershed and water quality modeling on non-point and point sources of pollution and climate change impacts on water resources. Jeff is currently a Research Associate managing QUEST Model Development for the Georgia Basin Future Project and is also involved in studies of climate change adaptation and of future water demand and supply scenario analysis in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada.

CLIFFORD COBB is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a masters degree in public policy. He is author (1992) of Responsive Schools, Renewed Communities, a communitarian proposal for systemic education reform, co-author (1993) of The Green National Product, an alternative measure of the national economy, co-editor (2001) of The Path to Justice, essays on the philosophy and economics of Henry George, contributor (1989, 1993) to For the Common Good, a text in environmental economics, and author of several articles on social indicators and environmental taxes. In 1999, he was invited to write a background paper for a planning session in Denmark on social indicators in preparation for the United Nations Summit on Social Development. In 1994, he helped establish Redefining Progress, a social policy think-tank in San Francisco, and he remains a senior fellow, doing research projects on common property resources and tax policy. In 1995, he served as a non-voting member of President Clintons Council on Sustainable Development. He is currently researching the history of the commons and private property.

RINA GHOSE specializes in GlScience, Urban Geography and India. Her research interests include the impacts and implications of GIS upon society and the social construction of GIS, democratizing GIS among traditionally marginalized citizens through public participation GIS (PPGIS) and studying the process of Ppgis, critical introspection of GIS, societal implications of digital technology, urban and rural gentrification and growth management. Professor Ghose has published her research papers widely in international scholarly journals such as Transactions in GIS, Progress in Human Geography, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Journal of URISA, Journal of Urban Technology and Cartographica. Professor Ghose has undertaken various synergistic actions in PPGIS such as participating in collaborative research with community-based organizations and organizing PPGIS sessions in international conferences.

HEIDI HOERNIG Heidi Hoernig is a doctoral candidate at the School of Planning, University of Waterloo. Aside from monitoring and evaluating her progress towards her doctoral goals, Ms. Hoernigs research interests lie in the areas of multiculturalism and planning, downtown revitalization and monitoring and evaluation in planning.

WILLIAM HUXHOLD has been teaching courses on geographic information systems at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1988. Prior to his full-time appointment at the University in 1990, he was MIS Project Director at the City of Milwaukee, having responsibility for the development of information systems for the City. He is active in national efforts related to land information systems and geographic information systems, having assisted efforts sponsored by the International Association of Assessing Officials, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Professor Huxhold is well known internationally in local government GIS circles, having published numerous papers, lectured at universities, conducted workshops, and delivered presentations at various professional meetings for more than 25 years. He has published four texts including GIS County Users Guide: Laboratory Exercises in Geographic Information Systems Using ARC/INFO Version