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Comprehensive Sustainability Indicators: The Houston Sustainability Indicators Program

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII

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The goal of the Houston Sustainability Indicators (HSI) program is to develop a system of indicators best suited to monitor development in the City of Houston. Considered as a process model, HSI was developed to cover the following four objectives: (1) Prioritizing issues (2) Examining interrelatedness in urban development (3) Conducting spatial analysis through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and (4) Public education, stakeholder participation and public policy development.

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    Spatial data refer to measures such as distance, location, area measures etc.

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    Attribute data refers to measures such as population counts, median housing value etc.

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    Delphi methodology starts by first collecting and then consolidating participant responses to questions or a decision making challenge. The next stage is to present these responses back to participants showing divergence and convergence of opinions. Participants are then given another opportunity to amend their choices based on feedback from the opinions of the entire group. This procedure is continued iteratively for 3–4 iterations.

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    Lester O. King

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  1. Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Meg Holden

  2. Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

  3. King County Auditor’s Office, Seattle, USA

    Chantal Stevens

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King, L.O. (2017). Comprehensive Sustainability Indicators: The Houston Sustainability Indicators Program. In: Holden, M., Phillips, R., Stevens, C. (eds) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VII. Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54618-6_10

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