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Community Development Research and Practice Series


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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.

 

To find out more about the Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society please visit: www.tandfonline.com/rcod.

 

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

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Democracy as Creative Practice Weaving a Culture of Community Life

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Community Life

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Tom Borrup, Andrew Zitcer
August 19, 2024

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural ...

50 Years of Community Development Vol II A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

50 Years of Community Development Vol II: A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

1st Edition

Edited By Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair
September 25, 2023

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 ...

Community Development for Times of Crisis Creating Caring Communities

Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating Caring Communities

1st Edition

Edited By Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman Walzer, Brent Hales
December 30, 2022

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis. Beginning with the Community Development section, the process, context, and methods for community, engagement, ...

Rural Areas in Transition Meeting Challenges & Making Opportunities

Rural Areas in Transition: Meeting Challenges & Making Opportunities

1st Edition

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 the numbers of ...

50 Years of Community Development Vol I A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

50 Years of Community Development Vol I: A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

Building Rural Community Resilience Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Building Rural Community Resilience Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

International Community Development Practice

International Community Development Practice

1st Edition

Edited 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...

Community Owned Businesses International Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economic Development

Community Owned Businesses: International Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economic Development

1st Edition

Edited 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 ...

Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America

Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America

1st Edition

Edited By Paul 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 ...

Culture, Community, and Development

Culture, Community, and Development

1st Edition

Edited By Rhonda Phillips, Mark A. Brennan, Tingxuan Li
February 17, 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 ...

The Heart of Community Engagement Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe

The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe

1st Edition

By Patricia Wilson
July 02, 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 ...

Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States

Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States

1st Edition

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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