Community Development – Current Issues Series – serie
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42 produkter
Business Retention and Expansion (BRE)
A Practical Approach to Economic Development
Av Michael Darger, Alan Barefield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neighborhood scale. This comprehensive volume centers on the belief that BRE is the top responsibility for a community economic development official. BRE is …
Community Development and Democratic Practice
Av Paul Lachapelle, Michael Rios
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored by the Kettering Foundation regarding the intersection of community development and democratic practice. The collective outcome from these processes is …
Collective Impact and Community Development Issues
Av Norman Walzer, Liz Weaver m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
651 kr
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Collective Impact is intended to help community leaders effectively engage participants in strategic planning initiatives and achieve desired results. It is a logical extension of, and builds on, earlier efforts that experienced difficulties helping groups implement actions identified in the …
Turning the Tide on Poverty
Av Lionel J. Beaulieu, Alice Diebel
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book highlights the experiences of 14 high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. While history would suggest that impoverished places have limited capacity to make good things happen, Tide …
Entrepreneurship, Community, and Community Development
Av Michael W-P Fortunato, Theodore R. Alter
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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While entrepreneurship is widely cited as playing a key role in economic development, job creation, and advances in well-being in capitalist nations, there has been an overwhelming focus on the firm, firm founders, and founders’ strategies and decision-making processes. Only more recently, the …
Business Retention and Expansion (BRE)
A Practical Approach to Economic Development
Av Michael Darger, Alan Barefield m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neighborhood scale. This comprehensive volume centers on the belief that BRE is the top responsibility for a community economic development official. BRE is …
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment – the way our cities and towns are developed – contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places …
Tourism, Planning, and Community Development
Av Rhonda Phillips, Sherma Roberts
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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The intersection of community development, tourism and planning is a fascinating one. Tourism has long been used as a development strategy, in both developed and developing countries, from the national to local levels. These approaches have typically focused on economic dimensions with decisions …
Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community
Av Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu, Jeffrey Jordan
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development literature that can …
Community Economic Development
Av Rhonda Phillips, Terry Besser
Inbunden, 2013
768 kr
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The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, …
Community Leadership Development
A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application
Av Mark A. Brennan, Mark A. Brennan
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes. Leadership development activities that focus on building new skills and fostering new …
Cooperatives and Community Development
Av Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips
Inbunden, 2013
2600 kr
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In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad …
Local Food and Community Development
Av Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens, …
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health
Häftad, 2014
761 kr
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As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment – the way our cities and towns are developed – contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places …
Tourism, Planning, and Community Development
Av Rhonda Phillips, Sherma Roberts
Häftad, 2014
761 kr
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The intersection of community development, tourism and planning is a fascinating one. Tourism has long been used as a development strategy, in both developed and developing countries, from the national to local levels. These approaches have typically focused on economic dimensions with decisions …
Sustainable Rural Development
Sustainable livelihoods and the Community Capitals Framework
Av Mary Emery, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development. By focusing on these approaches to community change, the volume hopes to encourage …
More than Bouncing Back
Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice
Av Anne Cafer, John J. Green m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge. This is particularly true at the intersection of community development practice and community resilience theory. …
More than Bouncing Back
Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice
Av Anne Cafer, John J. Green m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues of conceptualization and use emerge. This is particularly true at the intersection of community development practice and community resilience theory. …
Cooperatives and Community Development
Av Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad …
Community Economic Development
Av Rhonda Phillips, Terry Besser
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, …
Sustainable Rural Development
Sustainable livelihoods and the Community Capitals Framework
Av Mary Emery, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
636 kr
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This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development. By focusing on these approaches to community change, the volume hopes to encourage …
Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community
Av Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu, Jeffrey Jordan
Häftad, 2024
636 kr
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This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development literature that can …
Collective Impact and Community Development Issues
Av Norman Walzer, Liz Weaver m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2525 kr
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Collective Impact is intended to help community leaders effectively engage participants in strategic planning initiatives and achieve desired results. It is a logical extension of, and builds on, earlier efforts that experienced difficulties helping groups implement actions identified in the …
Entrepreneurship, Community, and Community Development
Av Michael W-P Fortunato, Theodore R. Alter
Inbunden, 2017
2525 kr
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While entrepreneurship is widely cited as playing a key role in economic development, job creation, and advances in well-being in capitalist nations, there has been an overwhelming focus on the firm, firm founders, and founders’ strategies and decision-making processes. Only more recently, the …
Turning the Tide on Poverty
Av Lionel J. Beaulieu, Alice Diebel
Inbunden, 2017
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book highlights the experiences of 14 high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. While history would suggest that impoverished places have limited capacity to make good things happen, Tide …
Community Visioning Programs
Processes and Outcomes
Häftad, 2017
821 kr
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Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s. These efforts generated a large amount of research regarding their effectiveness, as well as ways to measure long-term outcomes and other …
Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices
Av Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
798 kr
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Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of …
Innovative Community Change Practices
Häftad, 2017
827 kr
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The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development, resulting in long-term community changes. New techniques and approaches were used to identify available opportunities and programs which could take advantage of development …
Innovative Community Responses to Disaster
Av Brent Hales, Norman Walzer m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
798 kr
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Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well …
Community Development and Democratic Practice
Av Paul Lachapelle, Michael Rios
Inbunden, 2017
2525 kr
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This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored by the Kettering Foundation regarding the intersection of community development and democratic practice. The collective outcome from these processes is …
