Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor

The Short Guide to Community Development (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities. It includes: . a broad overview of core themes, concepts, basic practices and key issues in community development; . an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on community life and well-being, along with the implications for longer-term community support;¿ . additional brand new content on the pressing issues of¿democratic decline, social fragmentation and isolation, social care pressures, technological developments and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447327844
• Artikelnr.: 44874234

Autorenporträt

Alison Gilchrist is an independent consultant who has worked in community development for over 40 years as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher and manager. Marilyn Taylor, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, has a long track record of research in relation to community policy and practice and has published widely in this field.