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  • The Short Guide to Community Development

    by Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Series series Short Guides
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Short Guide to Community Development

    by Gilchrist, Alison, Taylor, Marilyn ...
    Series series Short Guides
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tomorrow’s Communities

    Lessons for Community-based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises

    by Diane Warburton, Mary Brydon-Miller, Rosalind Beadle, Alice Willatt, John Restakis, David Boyle, Alison Gilchrist, Neal Lawson, Colin Miller, Marjorie Mayo, Steve Wyler, Philip Ross, Gabriel Chanan, Martin Simon, Pat Conaty, Ed Mayo ...
    It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities should be given a role in tackling challenges exacerbated by global crises.Written by a team of leading experts with in-depth knowledge and on-the-ground experience, this book sets out why and how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Leading the Inclusive City

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    by Robin Hambleton ...
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  • Managing the City

    Edited by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Alan Townsend ...
    Taking a problem based approach to regeneration management, this exciting new book, authored by renowned academics and practitioners, examines how issues of ethics, equality, sustainability, local governance, civic renewal and learning are addressed within the areas of social and economic development and transformation.The issues covered here have significant implications for the ways in which ... Read more

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  • Media Regulation

    Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers

    by Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone ...
    "An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory and political values. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars but to people around the world grappling with the same problem: the need to regulate markets, and the difficulty of doing this well*."*- James Curran, Goldsmiths, ... Read more

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    A Progressive Future for Local Government

    by Ines Newman ...
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  • Making and Managing Public Policy

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  • Community Economic Development

    Edited by Graham Haughton ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh, theoretical, methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand ways in which communities are facing up to the ... Read more

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    Reconnecting Governance and People through Authentic Dialogue

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  • Transforming conflict through social and economic development

    Practice and policy lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties

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