Research Handbook on Community Development

✍ Scribed by Rhonda Phillips; Eric Trevan; Patsy Kraeger

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 513
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Community Development
Part I: Foundations
1 Weaving reflection, action, and knowledge creation: lived experience as a catalyst into the cycle of praxis for community development
2 The study of poverty in places: scope, scale, and space
3 In pursuit of just communities: supporting community development for marginalized communities through regional sustainability planning
4 Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): core principles
5 Stepping up the ladder: reflecting on the role of nonprofit organisations in supporting community participation
6 Social economy, social capital, NGOs and community development: a gendered perspective
7 What can Northwest European community enterprises learn from American community-based organizations?
8 Community development, well-being and technology: a Kenyan village
Part II: Research Methods and Frameworks
9 Experience of group formation in Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
10 How to build an “intentional community”
11 Inclusionary zoning and inclusionary housing in the United States: measuring inputs and outcomes
12 Enhancing evaluation capacity: lessons from faith-based community development in El Salvador
13 Managing competing interests in the public participation process: lessons from an analysis of residential displacement in Buffalo, New York’s transitioning neighborhoods
14 Methods and framework of participatory action research for community development in Bangladesh
15 Building a healthy community: the Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition
16 Social indicator projects for rural communities: the case of the Northwoods Quality of Life Database
17 An exploratory study of food deserts in Utica, Mississippi
18 Impact of socioeconomic characteristics on neighborhood environment satisfaction in deteriorated areas
19 Downtown revitalization, livability and quality of life in Tucson, Arizona
Part III: Emerging Constructs and the Future of Community Development Research
20 Theories and concepts influencing sustainable community development
21 Re-imagining community development: the Cocoa360 model
22 Community development and place attachment using an inductive social media approach
23 Re-imagining democratic research processes in community-based development: a case for photovoice
24 Centering aesthetics in community development: approaches from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
25 The new role of the university in community development
26 Community innovation and small liberal arts colleges: lessons learned from local partnerships and sustainable community development
27 Sustaining an urban education pipeline: a case study of university and community development partnership
Index

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