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  • Retaining and Transitioning Businesses in Communities

    Strategies in a New Era

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Christopher D. Merrett ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Finding innovative ways to successfully transition these businesses to new owners is at the heart of community and economic development efforts if many of these communities are to thrive in the future. Chapters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rural Areas in Transition

    Meeting Challenges & Making Opportunities

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Christopher Merrett ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.While reported population declines can paint a bleak picture for rural areas, a different story can be told in looking at the numbers of households, employment, and housing markets. In fact, many rural areas have had steady employment and healthy ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Community Development for Times of Crisis

    Creating Caring Communities

    Edited by Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman Walzer, Brent D. Hales ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis. Beginning with the Community Development section, the process, context, and methods for community, engagement, and development can be viewed from different structural and logical approaches. This section explores ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Community Owned Businesses

    International Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economic Development

    Edited by Norman Walzer ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse findings in ways which can be applied to new development initiatives, including rural grocery store ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • 50 Years of Community Development Vol I

    A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Rhonda Phillips, Robert Blair ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.The evolution of community development as ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cooperatives and Local Development

    Theory and Applications for the 21st Century

    by Christopher D. Merrett, Norman Walzer ...
    First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Innovative Community Change Practices

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Sam Cordes ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development, resulting in long-term community changes. New techniques and approaches were used to identify available opportunities and programs which could take advantage of development opportunities. A common theme among the contributions to this book is a focus on building leadership ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Using Collective Impact to Bring Community Change

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Liz Weaver ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011. Collective Impact has been used successfully with a variety of local issues and has raised the consciousness of how community groups interact as well as the approaches that can lead to long-term innovations.This edited volume sets forth conceptual foundations for using Collective Impact as ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The American Midwest

    Managing Change in Rural Transition

    by Norman Walzer ...
    The rural Midwest is undergoing fundamental changes with increased competition from foreign agriculture; employment shifts from higher-paying manufacturing to lower-paying service industries; the displacement of local small town business by large discount stores and shopping malls; overall population declines that threaten the viability of schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, along ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Innovative Community Responses to Disaster

    Edited by Brent Hales, Norman Walzer, James Calvin ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well as information as to which revitalization approaches have succeeded in the past. Community ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard, Mary Emery ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of documentation differ by types of project, jurisdiction, and country but they have a common focus of recognizing ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Community Visioning Programs

    Processes and Outcomes

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s. These efforts generated a large amount of research regarding their effectiveness, as well as ways to measure long-term outcomes and other related issues, in efforts to better understand the process of community change.This book provides ... Read more

    $67.99 USD