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.
Regional Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Rubin
January 12, 2018
Regional equity as a field of scholarship, as an arena of policy change, and as a social movement has grown, diversified, and matured in important ways over the past decade. The fruits of that growth and development can be seen in recent federal and state policies, in the practices of many regional...
Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
1st Edition
Edited
By Shanna Ratner, Deborah Markley
January 12, 2018
Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth, and, when this wealth is created, they often struggle to hold on it. Previous approaches to community and economic development have been inadequate in attempting to reverse these trends. ...
Community Visioning Programs: Processes and Outcomes
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm
June 07, 2017
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 Community Change Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Sam Cordes
June 07, 2017
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Brent D. Hales, Norman Walzer, James Calvin
June 07, 2017
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...
Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard, Mary Emery
June 07, 2017
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 ...
Community Leadership Development: A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark A. Brennan
July 16, 2015
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 ...
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Ogilvie
April 22, 2014
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhonda Phillips, Sherma Roberts
April 22, 2014
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 ...