Download or read book The Well connected Community written by Alison Gilchrist and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government policy is increasingly focused on the contribution that communities can make to civil society and democratic renewal. This book demonstrates how informal and formal networks strengthen community capacity and improve cross-sectoral working.
Download or read book Community Networks and the Process of Development written by Kaivan Munshi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Well connected Community written by Alison Gilchrist and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government policy is increasingly focused on the contribution that communities can make to civil society and democratic renewal. This book demonstrates how informal and formal networks strengthen community capacity and improve cross-sectoral working.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book An Introduction to Community Development written by Rhonda Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local economic interests and integrate finance and marketing considerations into their strategy. Most importantly, the book is strongly focused on outcomes, encouraging students to ask: what is best practice when it comes to planning for communities, and how do we accurately measure the results of planning practice? This newly revised and updated edition includes: increased coverage of sustainability issues, discussion of localism and its relation to community development, quality of life, community well-being and public health considerations, and content on local food systems. Each chapter provides a range of reading materials for the student, supplemented with text boxes, a chapter outline, keywords, and reference lists, and new skills based exercises at the end of each chapter to help students turn their learning into action, making this the most user-friendly text for community development now available.
Download or read book Networks that Work written by Paul Vandeventer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Building What Makes It Work written by Paul W Mattessich. and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn't) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won't find another single report that pulls out common lessons from across community building initiatives about what works. You can use this report to find out what community characteristics contribute to successful community building, make sure key processes such as communications and technical assistance are in place, determine if community leaders or organizers have essential qualities such as a relationship of trust and flexibility, and evaluate the likely success of a proposed project or get a struggling effort back on track. Examples, definitions, and a detailed bibliography make this report even more valuable. Wilder Research Center scoured the literature, contacted resource centers, and spoke with community development experts across the country. The result is concrete, understandable research based on real-life experiences. The 28 factors in this report are grouped by: 1) characteristics of the community, 2) characteristics of the community building process, and 3) characteristics of community building organizers. Detailed descriptions and case examples of how each factor plays out are followed by practical questions you can use to assess your work. In addition to the factors, you also get working definitions for community, community building, and many other terms; a list of resources and contacts in the field; an explanation of how the research was done; and a complete bibliography of all the studies used in this report. Now you can save time looking for best-practice information. With this concise report, you've got the tools to help your community building work succeed!
Download or read book The Community Networking Handbook written by Stephen T. Bajjaly and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Networking Handbook surveys the complete process of community networking: planning, developing partnerships, funding, marketing, content, public access, and evaluation. Under the guidance of author Stephen Bajjaly, founder and project director of South Carolina's MidNet, you will learn how the community network works, and how you can play your part.
Download or read book Community Practice in the Network Society written by Peter Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Practice in the Network Society looks at the broad context in which this is happening, presents case studies of local projects from around the world, and discusses community ICT research methodologies.
Download or read book Community Organizing written by Ross J. Gittell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-06-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods.
Download or read book The Community Development Process written by William Wishart Biddle and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Study of community development methods and possibilities. Case studies of rural areas and of urban areas community development. Relation to national planning, social sciences, religion and education. Bibliography pp. 297 to 324.
Download or read book Social Sustainability Climate Resilience and Community Based Urban Development written by Cathy Baldwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience than the actual physical structures of a city. But how can urban planning and design support these critical collective social strengths? This book offers blue sky thinking from the applied social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from 14 countries around the world – including India, the USA, South Africa, Indonesia, the UK and New Zealand – focusing on initiatives for housing, public space and transport stops, and also natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Building on these insights, the authors propose a 'gold standard': a socially aware planning process and policy recommendation for those drawing up city sustainability and climate change resilience strategies, and urban developers looking to build climate-proof infrastructure and spaces. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, resilience studies and climate change policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in related fields.
Download or read book Community Systems Science microform a Paradigm for Development written by Randal Adcock and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community systems science: a paradigm for development is an attempt to show one possible way of applying general systems science to the study and development of human communities. There are three main parts to the work: Community Systems Theory, Community Systems Analysis, and Community Systems Synthesis. Each of these parts is divided into two chapters - the first concerns community organization, the second, community change. Part One, Theory, puts forth some ideas about the nature and genesis of community. It sets the stage for Analysis and Synthesis by describing the essence of community in the abstract language and concepts of general systems theory. Chapter 1.1, Community Universals, tries to show how human communities can be seen as systems. As a system, a community is composed of two structured processes - causation and logic - joined together in a self-sustaining relationship. Chapter 1.2, Community Evolution, shows how human communities may have evolved out of human nature and man's pursuit of survival. Mutation and natural selection have determined that man evolve to defend and hunt in groups, and to personally specialize for greater collective adaptability. Part Two, Analysis, takes communities apart to illustrate how they are structured and function in development. This part compares communities across an evolutionary continuum to show how all communities are similar and different. Chapter 2.1, Community Networks, is an attempt to demonstrate the specific structure and function of community organization. Semiotic, time, space, communication, material, and command networks are the conceptual categories which seem most convenient for dissecting any community. Chapter 2.2, Community Development, shows how community organization becomes more complex and institutionalized. Development processes of differentiation and integration create nodes of related factors along network lines and between networks. Development may be a result of internal or external forces. Part Three, Synthesis, illustrates how communities can be created or developed using system principles. Chapter 3.1, Community Systems Engineering, approaches the design of a space colony. The design of new communities involves the identification and selection of desirable variables and relations for a model of the proposed community. Chapter 3.2, Community Systems Management, gives an example of how the process of community development can be controlled. Community development should be goal-oriented and self-regulated. Cross cultural development is used as an example for the management process. Insofar as the goal of Community Systems Science was initially to show how general systems science should be applied to community studies and development it is successful. However, there may be many other-ways of doing this as well. Some of the major issues have been addressed concerning any future community systems science.
Download or read book Weaving Community written by Juan Felipe Rincón and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Community Development Reader written by James DeFilippis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .
Download or read book Community Visioning Programs written by Norman Walzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 related issues, in efforts to better understand the process of community change. This book provides contributions written by researchers and practitioners describing both visioning and other strategic planning efforts. The Great Recession challenged the future of many small and medium sized cities, especially in non-metropolitan areas, renewing the interests of community leaders and elected officials in finding innovative ways to revitalize their local employment base and economic opportunities. Having access to a collection of best practices and successful approaches can greatly assist these practitioners in selecting strategies and techniques for use in their community efforts. The material in this book is especially useful because it includes both methodologies as well as case studies of how and why various approaches used in alternative cultural settings have succeeded. This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.
Download or read book Community Development as a Process written by Lee J. Cary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on community development as a process of social change - covers theoretical aspects, sociological aspects and psychological aspects, social participation, the role of social workers, etc. Bibliography pp. 201 to 208 and references.
