Community Development Research and Practice Series
About the Book Series
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
Community Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Grey Magaiza, Savathrie Margie Maistry
September 22, 2025
Community Development in Sub-Saharan Africa explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. This edited collection prioritises how localised community processes foster transformation in resource-poor communities. The book ...
Bridging the Digital Divide in the US: Planning Innovative State and Local Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Mildred E. Warner, Natassia A. Bravo, Duxixi (Ada) Shen
July 15, 2025
The US faces a deep digital divide which cuts across both urban and rural lines, but is most marked in rural, low income, and minority communities. This book presents a multi-level governance framework which explores how local leaders use policy opportunity and community resilience to address ...
Retaining and Transitioning Businesses in Communities: Strategies in a New Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman Walzer, Christopher D. Merrett
June 26, 2025
This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Finding innovative ways to successfully transition these businesses to new owners is at the heart of ...
Community Change in Action: A Roadmap for Students
1st Edition
By Sarah L. Young, Carly L. Redding
May 28, 2025
Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development. Using an evidence-based curriculum, the book breaks down exactly how to initiate and drive social change in a way that speaks to the unique ...
Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Borrup, Andrew Zitcer
August 01, 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 ...
Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise
1st Edition
Edited
By Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang
July 29, 2024
This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic ...
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman Walzer, Brent D. 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
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
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
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
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...