This series serves community developers, planners, public administrators and others involved in practice and policy making in the realm of community development. Building on a 40 year history of publishing the journal, Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, the book series seeks to contribute to the growing and rapidly changing knowledge base as a resource for practitioners and researchers alike.
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For more information about the Community Development Society please visit: http://www.comm-dev.org/publications/research-a-practice-series
Series Editor:
Rhonda G. Phillips
Purdue University, USA
Editorial Board:
Mark Brennan
Pennsylvania State University, USA
James Calvin
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Brian McGrath
National University of Ireland
Norman Walzer
Northern Illinois University, USA
Patricia A. Wilson
University of Texas, Austin, USA
Emeritus Board Members:
Jan Flora
Iowa State University, USA
Gary P. Green
University of Wisconsin, USA
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Christopher Merrett
December 23, 2022
This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway. While reported population declines can paint a bleak picture for rural areas, a different story can be told in looking at numbers of households,...
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By Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair
March 01, 2022
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues ...
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By Charlie French
February 28, 2022
Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of ...
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By Charlie McConnell, Daniel Muia, Anna Clarke
November 26, 2021
International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector...
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By Norman Walzer
July 20, 2021
This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse ...
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By Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair
February 16, 2021
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues ...
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By Paul R. Lachapelle, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Cornelia Butler Flora
July 09, 2020
Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. Resiliency in a community sense is associated with an ability to address stress and respond to shock ...
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By Rhonda Phillips, Mark A. Brennan, Tingxuan Li
February 20, 2020
Culture is a living thing. In social settings, it is often used to represent entire ways of life, including rules, values, and expected behavior. Varying from nation to nation, neighborhood to neighborhood and beyond, even in the smallest localities, culture is a motivating factor in the creation ...
By Patricia A. Wilson
June 21, 2019
Drawing on first-hand accounts of action research in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, The Heart of Community Engagement illustrates the transformative learning journeys of exemplary catalysts for community-based change. Practitioners’ stories of community engagement for social justice in the Global ...
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By Paul R. Lachapelle, Don E. Albrecht
December 20, 2018
The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing ...
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By Norman Walzer, Liz Weaver
July 12, 2018
Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011. Collective Impact has been used successfully with a variety of local issues and has raised the consciousness of how community groups interact as well as the approaches that can lead to ...
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By Katherine Melcher, Barry Stiefel, Kristin Faurest
December 08, 2016
Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets...
