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Community Development – Current Issues Series


About the 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.

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More than Bouncing Back Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

More than Bouncing Back: Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Anne Cafer, John J. Green, Gary Goreham
July 31, 2023

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. ...

Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) A Practical Approach to Economic Development

Business Retention and Expansion (BRE): A Practical Approach to Economic Development

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Darger, Alan Barefield, Brent D. Hales
April 08, 2019

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 ...

Community Development and Democratic Practice

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 ...

Turning the Tide on Poverty

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

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 ...

Food & Fitness Community Partnerships

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

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, ...

Regional Equity

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

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

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

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

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...

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