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Community development
About: Community development is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12799 publications have been published within this topic receiving 190784 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the link between societal prosperity and tourism using a competitiveness framework and show that if handled appropriately, tourism can become an important engine for achieving broader social goals.
1,865 citations
TL;DR: The authors explore opportunities for an integrated approach in community resilience to inform new research directions and practice, using the productive common ground between two strands of literature on community resilience, one from social-ecological systems and the other from the psychology of development and mental health.
Abstract: We explore opportunities for an integrated approach in community resilience to inform new research directions and practice, using the productive common ground between two strands of literature on community resilience, one from social–ecological systems and the other from the psychology of development and mental health. The first strand treats resilience as a systems concept, dealing with adaptive relationships and learning in social–ecological systems across nested levels, with attention to feedbacks, nonlinearity, unpredictability, scale, renewal cycles, drivers, system memory, disturbance events, and windows of opportunity. The second strand emphasizes identifying and developing community strengths, and building resilience through agency and self-organization, with attention to people–place connections, values and beliefs, knowledge and learning, social networks, collaborative governance, economic diversification, infrastructure, leadership, and outlook. An integrative approach seated in the complex ada...
1,522 citations
TL;DR: This paper drew connections between the environmental and community psychology literature on place attachment and meaning with the theory, research, and practice of community participation and community participation, drawing connections between these two domains.
Abstract: This article draws connections between the environmental and community psychology literature on place attachment and meaning with the theory, research, and practice of community participation and p...
1,295 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a model illustrates how a sense of community can have a catalytic effect on local action by affecting the perception of the environment, social relations, and one's perceived control and empowerment.
Abstract: Social programs need to identify catalysts for action which can be targeted in order to effectively and efficiently meet their goals. A model illustrates how a sense of community can have a catalytic effect on local action (i.e., participation in a block association) by affecting the perception of the environment, social relations, and one’s perceived control and empowerment The model is tested and confirmed through path-analytic and longitudinal techniques.
1,214 citations
6 Sep 2001
TL;DR: From Third Sector to Social Enterprise Part 1: Social Enterprises in the Fifteen EU Countries 1. Austria: social enterprises and new childcare services 2. Belgium: social Enterprises in Community Services 3. Denmark: Co-operative Activity and Community Development 4. Finland: Labour Co-operatives as an Innovative Response to Unemployment 5. France: Social enterprises Developing 'Proximity Services' 6. Greece: Social entrepreneurs Responding to Welfare Needs 8. Ireland: social entrepreneurs and Local Development 9. Portugal: Cooperatives for Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities 12. Luxembourg:
Abstract: Introduction: From Third Sector to Social Enterprise Part 1: Social Enterprises in the Fifteen EU Countries 1. Austria: Social Enterprises and New Childcare Services 2. Belgium: Social Enterprises in Community Services 3. Denmark: Co-operative Activity and Community Development 4. Finland: Labour Co-operatives as an Innovative Response to Unemployment 5. France: Social Enterprises Developing 'Proximity Services' 6. Germany: Social Enterprises and Transitional Employment 7. Greece: Social Enterprises Responding to Welfare Needs 8. Ireland: Social Enterprises and Local Development 9. Italy: From Traditional Cooperatives to Innovative Social Enterprises 10. Luxembourg: Work-Integration Social Enterprises in an Emerging Third Sector 11. Portugal: Co-operatives for Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities 12. Spain: Social Enterprises as a Response to Employment Policy Failure 13. Sweden: The Emergence of Work-Integration Social Enterprises 14. The Netherlands: Neighbourhood Development Enterprises 15. United Kingdom: A Wide Range of Social Enterprises Part 2: The Social Enterprises: A Theoretical Perspective 16. Social Enterprises as Incentive Structures: An Economic Analysis 17. The Significance of Social Capital in the Multiple Goal and Resource Structure of Social Enterprises 18. The Social Enterprise: Towards a Theoretical Socio-Economic Approach 19. Management Challenges for Social Enterprises Conclusions: Social Enterprises in Europe: A Diversity of Initiatives and Prospects
1,186 citations
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| 2025 | 83 |
| 2024 | 113 |
| 2023 | 173 |
| 2022 | 237 |
| 2021 | 336 |
| 2020 | 445 |