Community well-being and quality of life. Framework for community and neighborhood measurement -- Methodological considerations for community and neighborhood measurement -- Community readiness and capacity for change -- Strategic collective action in communities -- Social connections and processes in communities -- Community empowerment and engagement -- Community resources and resident satisfaction -- The built environment influencing healthy living -- Housing and neighborhood change -- Community disorder, crime, and violence -- Place-based social exclusion and inequity -- Community well-being and quality of life.
Summary:
"Measures for community and neighborhood research is the first book of its kind to compile measures focused on communities and neighborhoods in one accessible resource. Organized into two main sections, the first provides the rationale, structure and purpose, and analysis of methodological issues, along with a conceptual and theoretical framework; the second section contains 10 chapters that synthesize, analyze, and describe measures for community and neighborhood research, with tables that summarize highlighted measures. The book will get readers thinking about which aspects of the neighborhood may be most important to measure in different research designs and also help researchers, practitioners, funders, and others more closely examine the impact of their work in communities and neighborhoods"--Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.