An Introduction to Community Development
An Introduction to Community Development

Author: Rhonda Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 1134482329

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Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local economic interests and integrate finance and marketing considerations into their strategy. Most importantly, the book is strongly focused on outcomes, encouraging students to ask: what is best practice when it comes to planning for communities, and how do we accurately measure the results of planning practice? This newly revised and updated edition includes: increased coverage of sustainability issues, discussion of localism and its relation to community development, quality of life, community well-being and public health considerations, and content on local food systems. Each chapter provides a range of reading materials for the student, supplemented with text boxes, a chapter outline, keywords, and reference lists, and new skills based exercises at the end of each chapter to help students turn their learning into action, making this the most user-friendly text for community development now available.

Social and Community Development Practice
Social and Community Development Practice

Author: Manohar Pawar

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788132118459

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Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It also shows the significance of social policy education for social and community development workers and the need for expanding community development practice from local levels to international levels. The author argues that the social work profession itself needs to quickly reorganize and strengthen. It needs to consider alternative modes of preparing social workers and community organizers who can reach out at local levels. The profession also needs to develop indigenous ethical standards for SCD practice. The author’s deep reflections reveal the dire need to refocus on SCD practice to address major issues such as poverty and inequality plaguing vast populations around the world.

Research Handbook on Community Development
Research Handbook on Community Development

Author: Rhonda Phillips

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-04-24

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1788118472

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This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.

The community development reader
The community development reader

Author: Craig, Gary

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1847427057

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Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community development careers, for activists, and for all those teaching, training and practising community development.

Community Development
Community Development

Author: Hennie Swanepoel

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780702171581

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Based on foundations of participation and empowerment, this entry-level study covers every aspect necessary to mobilize a community to fight poverty. Chapters address issues such as the principles of community development, starting and maintaining community projects and workshops, recruiting and motivating members, and decision-making and problem-solving management.

The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research
The Routledge Handbook of Community Development Research

Author: Lynda Shevellar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1317043863

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This handbook sets a new research agenda in community development. The contributors redefine existing areas within the context of interdisciplinary research, highlight emerging areas for community development related research, and provide researchers and post-graduate students with ideas and encouragement for future research activity. To do this, the editors have deliberately chosen to frame this book not through a traditional sociological lens of class, race and gender, but through a "Wicked Problems" framework. Drawing upon the work of 37 international authors, in diverse settings such as West Papua, Peru, the USA and Australia; and with methodologies equally as diverse, from case studies and interviews to the use of music and story-telling, this handbook focuses upon five Wicked Problems: forced displacement; family, gender and child related violence; indigenous marginalisation; climate change and food security; and human survival in the context of disaster and recovery work. By drawing together leading scholars from community development, social work and social policy, this handbook provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for both scholars and practitioners and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and in the field.

Practice of Sustainable Community Development
Practice of Sustainable Community Development

Author: R. Warren Flint

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-10-17

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1461451000

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Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, “big picture” dynamics of sustainability theory and action. In exploring means to become more sustainable, individuals and groups need a reference in which to frame discussions so they will be relevant, educational, and successful when implemented. This book puts ideas on sustainable communities into a conceptual framework that will promote striking, transformational effects on decision-making. In this book practitioners and community leaders will find effective, comprehensive tools and resources at their finger-tips to facilitate sustainable community development (SCD). The book content examines a diverse range of SCD methods; assessing community needs and resources; creating community visions; promoting stakeholder interest and participation; analyzing community problems; designing and facilitating strategic planning; carrying out interventions to improve

Asset Building & Community Development
Asset Building & Community Development

Author: Gary Paul Green

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1412982235

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Employing a broad definition of community development, this book shows how asset building can help increase the capacity of residents to improve their quality of life. It provides students and practitioners with theoretical and practical guidance on how to mobilize community capital (physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural) to effect positive change. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines show that development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between these assets and the needs of the communities.