Engaging Appalachia
eBook - ePub

Engaging Appalachia

A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Engaging Appalachia

A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability

About this book

Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities—and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building, and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for achieving sustainable and just development. Written with practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new models for building community resilience in a changing world.

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Yes, you can access Engaging Appalachia by Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long, William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher,Rebecca-Eli Long,William Schumann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Leadership in Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Collaborating toward sustainability
  8. 1. Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories: Growing community and sustainability through seeds and art
  9. 2. Bringing Back the Forest: University outreach, community engagement, and partnerships for the reforestation of coal mines in Appalachia
  10. 3. Wealth and Poverty in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds: Navigating community–university partnership in southeast Ohio
  11. 4. Collaborating for Conservation: Monitoring the hemlock woolly adelgid in the Allegheny National Forest
  12. 5. Documenting the Past to Sustain the Future: Appalachian Teaching Project in Unicoi County, Tennessee
  13. 6. Roots with Wings: Oral history project in Floyd County, Virginia
  14. 7. Breaking the Chains of Addiction through University, Nonprofit, and Community Partnerships: The story of Pollen8
  15. 8. Students Leading the Way to Social Change: Engaging students in applied sociological research in Eastern Kentucky
  16. 9. Town and Gown Collaborations in Southwest Virginia Post-Coal Communities: Clinch River Valley Initiative and Radford University economic diversification efforts
  17. 10. GIS Mapping of Legacy Oil and Gas Wells
  18. 11. Appalachia Abroad: Reflections on long-term engagement in rural Wales
  19. Conclusion
  20. Epilogue: Community-based research in Appalachia
  21. Contributors
  22. Index
  23. Series