Bücher der Reihe Community Development - Current Issues Series

Collective Impact is intended to help community leaders engage participants in strategic planning initiatives. This book examines successful practices that apply CI principles to community development issues. It was first published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.

Tourism, planning, and community development are intricately connected. It is crucial to explore these connections to foster community well-being. This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.

This book contains writing at the forefront of thinking about the intersections of power, participation, and engagement in the realm of community practice, serving as a heuristic framework for 'democratic community development'. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness work as well as a number of early successes. They draw lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

This book highlights the experiences of fourteen high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.

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. This book teases out limitations with current conceptualizations of community resilience, offers enhanced and alternative conceptualizations, and presents compelling case studies of new conceptualizations in action. This book is a starting place for scholarly conversations about the role of community resilience in community development practice. The frameworks presented here, will continue to gain more support in academic and non-academic arenas as resilience rhetoric increases in popularity. However, it is crucial for community practitioners to use these frameworks to actively cultivate resilience in their communities by building adaptive capacity in systematic ways. To move the field of community resilience forward, it is critical to understand the nuances of context and conditions in communities and how broader conceptualizations of resilience account for and utilize context to build adaptive capacity. This book was originally published as a special issue in the journal Community Development.