Short Guide to Community Development, Paperback by Gilchrist, Alison; Taylor, Marilyn, ISBN 1447360729, ISBN-13 9781447360728, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

This guide introduces community development themes, concepts, practices, and issues, focusing on the UK and with reference to the US and elsewhere. It explains different understandings and models of community development; policies and other factors that have shaped community development; theories that inform practice, particularly theories of community, identity, the state, collective organization, and power; the skills, values, and techniques of practice; applications in different policy fields, such as housing, poverty, the environment, health, and inequalities; and challenges in the field, such as leadership, equality and diversity, scale and sustainability, and dealing with uncertainty and disruption. This edition has been updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics, and culture and incorporates new content on democratic decline, social fragmentation and isolation, social care pressures, technological developments, and climate change, as well as COVID-19. Gilchrist is a consultant who has worked in community development as an activist, practitioner, trainer, researcher, and manager, and Taylor is a researcher who has researched community policy and practice. Distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()