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ISBN: 9780776605968-02

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From Indicators to Governance to the Mainstream

Tools for Cultural Policy and Citizenship

From: Accounting for Culture

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Discusses the need to move along and up the "knowledge value chain" from data (statistics), to information (indicators), to knowledge (benchmarks), to wisdom (policy).

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Colin Mercer

Colin Mercer is the managing director of Cultural Capital Ltd, a company specializing internationally in strategic research and development for the cultural sector. Formerly he was the U.K.'s first professor of cultural policy and director of the Cultural Policy and Planning Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University. From 1984-1998 he worked in Australia where he was director of the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies and associate professor in Cultural Policy and History at Griffith University. He is co-author of The Cultural Planning Handbook and many other publications in the field of cultural policy and cultural studies and has been responsible for a number of urban, regional and community cultural mapping, policy and planning frameworks which repositioned the arts and cultural resources in strategic and mainstream contexts. Most recently he has been project director and author of the book Towards Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Cultural Policy and Development, commissioned by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (sida) and published in November 2002.