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 Paul R. Lachapelle, Don E. Albrecht
December 13, 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 04, 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 L. Stiefel, Kristin Faurest
December 09, 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...
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By Max O. Stephenson Jr., Scott Tate
May 05, 2015
Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy ...
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By John M. Halstead, Steven C. Deller
April 28, 2015
In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built ...
By Robyn Eversole
October 28, 2014
Effective community development means that many different stakeholders have to work together: governments, development organizations and NGOs, and most importantly, the people they serve. Knowledge Partnering for Community Development teaches community development professionals how to mediate ...
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By Kelly L. Patterson, Robert Mark Silverman
October 01, 2013
New research in community development shows that institutions matter. Where the private sector disinvests from the inner city, public and nonprofit institutions step in and provide engines to economic revitalization and promote greater equity in society. Schools and Urban Revitalization collects ...
By Maria Martinez-Cosio, Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell
July 10, 2013
Winner of the Community Development Society's 2014 Current Research Award! 21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding, Maria ...
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By Mark Brennan, Jeffrey Birdger, Theodore Alter
July 10, 2013
For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with the major social changes of our day. Given our constantly shifting social reality we need new ideas and research that pushes the boundaries of ...
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By Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm
March 08, 2012
Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies. Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners,...