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Asset-Based
Approach to Community Development ... UNHabitat
Agency
Report offered for sale ... explores the roots,
merits, and applications of an asset-based approach to
community
development. (source
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About
CCEDNET (The Canadian CED Network) What
is CED? answer
The Canadian CED Network has a mission to strengthen ...
communities by creating better economic opportunities and
enhancing environmental and social conditions (source
of quote). The difference between typical definitions of community
development and economic
development is reflected in the quote by
the keyword
combination, environmental and social conditions, which is
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The
Center for Creative Land Recycling links to resourcesabout
CCLR
Although published as resources for specific places the links
may be of interest to local leaders engaged
in community
development as a check list if nothing more. For
example. near the top of list of links is the word brownfields.
Look to the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary for an answer to the question
of what
a brownfield is. |
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community
analysis and community development
Definitions in Economic
Development Basics, Appendix C, Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary. See definitions that begin with the
word community, also. |
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Community Analysis for Libraries
and LibrariansKansas
State Library
See the Economic Development Network website, About Economic Development, p4, if you want to know where community libraries fit in as location
data suppliers. |
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Community
Development Exchange websiteabout
CDX.org
The webpage you access at CDX.org.uk comments on the purpose
of community development under its answer to the question
of what the work entails. External
links at the
website include access to additional international
and European resources. |
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Community economic development
definitions and terminologyStewart
Perry
The terms and definitions are offered ... as
a way of making some important distinctions in the actual
practices (of community economic development) that
occur in the field (Perry, Cambridge, MA, is quoted.
The source is the Centre
for Community Enterprise). |
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Community
Development Journala
publication of the Oxford University Press
... It provides an excellent vehicle
for scholars, educators, community development professionals,
and grassroots workers to develop knowledge and exchange
ideas about theory and practice worldwide (source of quote
is the director
of the University of Michigan Center for Community Service and
Learning). It is indicated that the mission is to engage those
who are interested in the local development process ...
in learning together through community service and civic
participation ... (source
of quote). |
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Community,
Natural Resource and Economic DevelopmentBill
Pinkovitz
Biographical information about professor at the University of Wisconsin Extension,
Center for Community and Economic Development, Madison, WI offers useful
links. |
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The
Community Toolboxa
resource of the University of Kansas ...
Work Group
for Community Health and Development. Resource for the link was
Craig
Freshley's Good Group Decisions website (scroll www.freshley.com/linksggd.aspx webpage
down to Community Building and Sustainability). |
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Developing A Community Profilea
resource of Ohio State University Extension
See the definition
of community profile in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary and additional
comments in Site Location Assistance.com. |
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local
economic development information/links in the resource archive of The Network
One of the first things that
places that want economic development need to do is to be
sure that they are not left out of The Network ... location
data suppliers need to do is be sure that they are
listed in the Global
Registry of Contacts (source
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The
cultural politics of local economic development (abstract)Eugene
McCann
Among McCann's keywords tagged
to the abstract are cultural politics, urban politics, and placesee
the meaning
of place as that keyword in used by The Network. Also
politics
is listed as fundamental to the economic development process in
Appendix
C of the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. Comments
there about political involvement and influence are equally applicable
to community
development. |
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Local
Economic DevelopmentThe
World Bank
The purpose of (LED) is to build up the
economic capacity of a local area to improve its economic
future and the quality of life for
all ... (source
of quote) |
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The Stadium Gambit and Local Economic
DevelopmentThe
Cato Institute
Article in Regulation (Volume 23, No.
2), by Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys
addresses impact of professional sports
on communities and lists additional readings. |
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Local
Economic Development PoliciesUpjohn
Institute
Paper prepared as a chapter of Management Policies in Local Government
Finance, edited by J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz, a
publication of the International
City/County Management Association. Links page at the ICMA website: CLICK
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Rural Development / Community Development
Technical Assistance Handbook
A resource of the US
Department of Agriculture which indicates that its rural
development mission is to help develop communities
and enterprises through financial and technical
assistance ... Rural Development
works to make sure that rural citizens can participate fully
in the global economy (source
of quote). The .network resource
archive page that opens with rural development also has
community development information. Access
it and use
your page-search tool to query for the word community. Use
the Site
Location Assistance.com internal search tool to
find more information in the archive about rural development.
Access
the tool and search for rural development as
a case-insensitive phrase. You might also want to search
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community, enterprise and economic development:
... an expression placing community
development, enterprise
development, and economic
development within a context indicating
that altogether they are processes within a location that
is growing. Community development addresses livability. Enterprise
development addresses the community work-life balance: ... the
equilibrium between the amount of time and effort employers
and employees mutually devote to production and that of other
aspects of life in the area. Economic
development addresses growth, community vitality, and
the thrifty use of resources, materials, wealth and
labor. See the various definitions of the latter in About
Economic Development, Page 2 in the Economic
Development Network website.
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community outreach:
... an effort to reach
out from an organization with an offer of resources
and/or services needed or wanted by a community. For
example, an institution
of higher education reaches out from its
campus in a manner of community
spirit into its service area. Community outreach
may be a systematic attempt to provide resources and/or
services, typically within an ally
network, beyond conventional limits
to places
seeking economic development.
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social cohesion:
... involves
building shared values and communities of interpretation,
reducing disparities in wealth and income, and generally
enabling people to have a sense that they are engaged
in a common enterprise, facing shared challenges, and
that they are members of the same community ... according
to Judith Maxwell, Canadian
Policy Research Networks, Ottawa, ON. Also: Social
cohesion is a set of social processes that help instill
in individuals
the sense of belonging
to the same community and the feeling that they are recognized
as members of that community ... according
to the Commissariat
Generale du Plan (source
of quotes). Social cohesion is mentioned
in the definition of community at the top of
page 6, About
Economic Development.
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This is a virtual section
of a specialized public library online ... an open
access resource
that is part of a
3-website network with a global mission.
You are not
monitored as you move around in the library. Use the page-in-series
buttons at the top of this page to move from section to
section. Assistance is available for the askingdetails
/ how to request help.
Links to various local development and community
development resources are in the section you are now visiting.
To query the Web for additional resources, use the search engine at
the top of this page. The following italicized keyword
suggestions are provided for you to copy and paste to the search
engine. Where you see quotation marks, keep them intact. Where you
see the word location, substitute the identity of a place of
interest to you.
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"community development"
location
"community economic development"
guide
"community development"
resources
community economic development location
rural
community development location region
rural
community "economic development"
"community
building" "economic development"
rural
area development resources location
contact
"community development" services
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