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Deliberations in Community Development
John Peter RotheLinda J. CarrollDejan Ozegovic
其他書名
Balancing on the Edge
出版Nova Science Publishers, 2012
主題Business & Economics / Development / GeneralLaw / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSocial Science / General
ISBN16120962989781612096292
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IGPxtgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Community development has become the new buzz in the social and health sciences. Although community development has been an important subject for deliberation and study for several decades, within the past ten years or so it has become politically correct and even fashionable to include mention of community development in government parlance, economic planning, social work, public health debates and liberal arts discourse. Whereas most texts on community development make only brief reference to the importance of theory, thereafter quickly dispensing with it, in this book, the approach taken to community development positions itself against that trend. The issues raised in the chapters of this book offer us alternative ways of looking at the familiar. This book informs us that community development is a complex conundrum of definitions, ideas, ideologies, interests, data, participants and locations