MEASURES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE:
The case of The Boston Indicators Project

 

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ABSTRACT

THIS STUDY:

what are indicators?

indicators history

indicators projects

the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

the Boston Indicators Project

evaluating Boston's environment

FURTHER EXPLORING THE USE OF INDICATORS: An Indicators Master's Thesis (in progress)

RESOURCES

INDICATORS PROJECTS RESOURCES

References used in this website:

Bauer, Raymond Augustine. 1967. Social indicators. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.

Cobb, C. W., and C. Rixford. 1998. Lessons Learned from the History of Social Indicators. San Francisco, CA: Redefining Progress.

Gahin, Randa, and Chris Paterson. 2001. Community indicators: Past, present, and future. National Civic Review 90 (4):347.

Rossi, Robert J., and Kevin J. Gilmartin. 1980. The handbook of social indicators: Sources, characteristics, and analysis. New York: Garland STPM Press.

Sheldon, Eleanor B. and Howard E. Freeman. 1970. Notes on Social Indicators. Policy Sciences 1:97-111

Sustainable Seattle. History.  Accessed November 2, 2005.  URL: http://www.sustainableseattle.org/About/History/document_view.

Urban Institute. 1996. Democratizing Information: First Year Report of the National Neighborhood Indicators Project.  Washington, DC: Urban Institute

GENERAL RESOURCES:

Click HERE to download a Word document of indicators resources.

Indicators Projects Websites:

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership: www.urban.org/nnip

Sustainable Seattle: www.sustainableseattle.org

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project: www.neip.org

Truckee Meadows Tomorrow: www.quality-of-life.org

Jacksonville Quality of Life: http://www.jcci.org/statistics/qualityoflife.aspx