Community development
Subtitle: community-based alternatives in an age of globalisation
By: Jim Ife, Frank Tesoriero
Contributors: Tesoriero, Frank
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780733977244
Subjects: Community development; Community organization; Social service; Citizen participation
Description: Presents important principles of community development, empowering students to understand the ways in which community development practitioners can work in different context. The applied nature of the book ensures the relevance of concepts and ideas to the activities of communities and community development.
Notes: Previous edition: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The crisis in human services, the rise of individualism and the need for community; title: 2. Foundations of community development: an ecological perspective; title: 3. Foundations of community development: a social justive and human rights perspective; title: 4. Ecology and social justice/human rights: a vision for community development; title: 5. Change from below; title: 6. Participation; title: 7. The process of community development; title: 8. The global and the local; title: 9. Integrated community development; title: 10. Community development: cultural, environmental and personal/spiritual; title: 11. The application of principles to practice; title: 12. Roles and skills; title: 13. Practice issues.