Community Development – Current Issues Series
About the Book Series
The Community Development Society (CDS) in conjunction with Routledge/Taylor & Francis is pleased to present this series of volumes on current issues in community development. The series is designed to present books organized around special topics or themes, promoting exploration of timely and relevant issues impacting both community development practice and research. Building on a rich history of over 40 years of publishing the journal, Community Development, the series will provide reprints of special issues and collections from the journal. Each volume is updated with the editor’s introductory chapter, bringing together current applications around the topical theme.
Founded in 1970, the Community Development Society is a professional association serving both researchers and practitioners. CDS actively promotes the continued advancement of the practice and knowledge base of community development. For additional information about CDS, visit https://cdsociety.org.
More than Bouncing Back: Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Cafer, John J. Green, Gary Goreham
November 28, 2024
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. ...
Community Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhonda Phillips, Terry Besser
October 14, 2024
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, ...
Cooperatives and Community Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu, Jeffrey Jordan
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Sustainable Rural Development: Sustainable livelihoods and the Community Capitals Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Emery, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Edith Fernandez-Baca
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Business Retention and Expansion (BRE): A Practical Approach to Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Darger, Alan Barefield, Brent D. Hales
December 18, 2020
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 ...
Entrepreneurship, Community, and Community Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael W-P Fortunato, Theodore R. Alter
August 14, 2020
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Lionel J. Beaulieu, Alice Diebel
March 22, 2019
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 ...
Collective Impact and Community Development Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Liz Weaver, Catherine McGuire
February 14, 2019
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 ...
Community Development and Democratic Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Lachapelle, Michael Rios
February 07, 2019
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 ...
Food & Fitness Community Partnerships
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurie Lachance, Laurie Carpenter, Mary Emery, Mia Luluquisen
January 03, 2019
This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities. This important study introduces ...
Local Food and Community Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips
August 10, 2018
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, ...