Community Economic Development
eBook - ePub

Community Economic Development

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Community Economic Development

About this book

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, participation, and business development. It discusses the need for aligning the goals of community betterment more closely with economic improvement and finding ways to enhance leadership and other resources. Including both current contributions and "classics, " the evolution of the relationship between' and roles of, the two kinds of development is explored.

The articles in the volume present several theoretical perspectives of development. Most common among them are sustainable economic development and social capital theories. Utilizing these theories and data from various sources, the authors are able to suggest specific development strategies for improving community economic and quality of life outcomes. The volume offers an exploration of directions for future research, including the need for more theoretical and empirical work on the role of amenity development on rural community economic and quality-of- life outcomes. Practitioners of community and economic development, along with researchers and students will find this volume useful and relevant for both theory and application.

This book is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of the Community Development Society.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780415634090
eBook ISBN
9781134905829
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. Achieving Sustainable Economic Development in Communities
  9. 3. Gleaners, Do-Gooders, and Balers: Options for Linking Sustainability and Economic Development
  10. 4. The Community and Economic Development Chain: Validating the Links Between Processes and Outcomes
  11. 5. Economic Development in the Nonmetropolitan West: The Influence of Built, Natural, and Social Capital
  12. 6. Development of Last Resort: The Impact of New State Prisons on Small Town Economies in the United States
  13. 7. Chain stores and local economies: a case study of a rural county in New York
  14. 8. Micro Businesses as an Economic Development Tool: What They Bring and What They Need
  15. 9. Citizen Participation in Nonprofit Economic Development Organizations
  16. 10. Community Development Corporations as Vehicles of Community Economic Development: The Case of Rural Manitoba
  17. Index