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Measuring and benchmarking how regions and local communities perform and cope with socioeconomic change is a methodological issue of interest to geographers and regional scientists. The chapter outlines two approaches used in projects in which the author has been involved. The first involved monitoring and evaluating the performance of three of Australia’s metropolitan cities on a range of indicators relating to population and employment, investment in economic activities and housing markets. The second involved developing a multi-variate model to measure the socio-economic performance of local communities across Australia’s cities and towns.
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Stimson, R. (2004). Monitoring and benchmarking regional and local performance. In: Bailly, A., Gibson, L.J. (eds) Applied Geography. GeoJournal Library, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2442-9_16
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