Description

Community economic development is increasingly a strategy in the fight against poverty that is complementary to more traditional approaches, such as employment training, guaranteed income, and social assistance targeted at individuals rather than communities.

This is an important new book that identifies and critically assesses the current state of research on community economic development. This book will be of interest to decision makers in the government and non-government sectors, community developers and practitioners as well as researchers and students.

Table of Contents

PART 1: OVERVIEWS OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 1. Community Economic Development Practice in Canada, Dal Brodhead
• 2. Community Economic Development: An Overview of the U.S. Experience, Michael Swack and Donald Mason
• 3. Neighbourhood Development in the European Community, Claude Jacquier
• 4. Community Economic Development Organizations in Developing Countries, Katherine Ichoya

PART 2: SCOPE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 5. The Scope and Characteristics of Community Economic Development in Canada, Mike Lewis
• 6. Regional, Local and Community-Based Economic Development, Tim J. O'Neill
• 7. An Integrated Development Model for Building Sustainable Communities in Canada, Marcia L. Nozick
• 8. Scope and Characteristics of CED: Summary, Policy Implications and Research Needs, R. Nutter & M. McKnight

PART 3: ENVIRONMENTS CONDUCIVE TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• 9. Community Economic Development Revisited: The Preconditions for Success, Mario Polese

• 10. Socio-Economic Policy: The Challenge of Global Trends, R. A. (Sandy) Lockhart

• 11. Making Communities Work: Women and Community Economic Development, Lucy Alderson, Melanie Conn, Janet Donald and Leslie Kemp

• 12. Environments Conducive to Effective Community Economic Development: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Needs, France Asselin and François Dumaine

PART 4: EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 13. A Review of Four Evaluations of CED Programs: What Have We Learned in Two Decades?, Ken Watson
• 14. Employability Approaches in CED Practice: Case Studies and Issues, Jean-Marc Fontan and Eric Shragge
• 15. The Innovative Profile of Community Economic Development in Qu–bec, Louis Favreau and William A. Ninacs
• 16. Evaluation of Community Economic Development: Summary and Research Agenda, J. Hudson and D. MacDonald

PART 5: PARTNERSHIPS FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 17. Governments as Partners in Community Economic Development, Teresa MacNeil

• 18. The Corporate and Voluntary Sectors as Partners in Community Economic Development, Christopher R. Bryant

• 19. Community-Based Social Service Organizations and the Development of An Ecologically Sound Model for Sustainable Community Economic Development, David Challen and Dennis McPherson

• 20. Partnerships Conducive to Effective Community Economic Development: Summary, Policy Implications and Research Agenda, Nick Coady and Burt Galaway

PART 6: URGENT AND SPECIFIC NEEDS OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 21. Development Indicators and Development Planning: A Case Study, Francois Lamontagne
• 22. Training Needs for Effective Community Economic Development, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
• 23. Training -- An Urgent Community Economic Development Need, Flo Frank
• 24. Promotion of Community Economic Development, David Pell
• 25. Summary, Policy Implication and Research Needs, Leslie Kemp and Mary Coyle

PART 7: FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• 26. Summary, Future Directions and the Research Agenda, Dal Brodhead and Francois Lamontagne