The Short Guide to Community Development by Gilchrist, Alison

The Short Guide to Community Development (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781447327837)

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Format: Paperback
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The Short Guide to Community Development by Gilchrist, Alison

The Short Guide to Community Development

$24.95
The Short Guide to Community Development by Gilchrist, Alison

The Short Guide to Community Development

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alison Gilchrist,Marilyn Taylor
ISBN-10: 1447327837
ISBN-13: 9781447327837
Publisher: Policy Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Alison Gilchrist
By Alison Gilchrist
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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.

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