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Book Synopsis Community Economic Development by : Rhonda G. Phillips
Download or read book Community Economic Development written by Rhonda G. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital, participation, and business development. It discusses the need for aligning the goals of community betterment more closely with economic improvement and finding ways to enhance leadership and other resources. Including both current contributions and "classics," the evolution of the relationship between’ and roles of, the two kinds of development is explored. The articles in the volume present several theoretical perspectives of development. Most common among them are sustainable economic development and social capital theories. Utilizing these theories and data from various sources, the authors are able to suggest specific development strategies for improving community economic and quality of life outcomes. The volume offers an exploration of directions for future research, including the need for more theoretical and empirical work on the role of amenity development on rural community economic and quality-of- life outcomes. Practitioners of community and economic development, along with researchers and students will find this volume useful and relevant for both theory and application. This book is a compilation of articles published in the Journal of the Community Development Society.
Book Synopsis Doing Community Economic Development by : John Loxley
Download or read book Doing Community Economic Development written by John Loxley and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Published by: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Download or read book Solving Poverty written by Jim Silver and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational achievement, high levels of neighbourhood violence, racism, colonialism and social exclusion. As a result many poor people experience low levels of self-esteem and self-confidence and may blame themselves, which is reinforced by the dominant blame-the-victim discourse about poverty. Silver argues that today’s urban poverty is qualitatively different than the urban poverty of forty years ago, and that there are no quick, easy or one-dimensional solutions. In Solving Poverty, Jim Silver, a veteran scholar actively engaged in anti-poverty efforts in Winnipeg’s inner city for decades, offers an on-the-ground analysis of this form of poverty. Silver focuses particularly on the urban Aboriginal experience, and describes a variety of creative and effective urban Aboriginal community development initiatives, as well as other anti-poverty initiatives that have been successful in Winnipeg’s inner city. In the concluding chapter Silver offers a comprehensive, pan-Canadian strategy to dramatically reduce the incidence of urban poverty in Canada.
Book Synopsis Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development by : Monica C. Diochon
Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development written by Monica C. Diochon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the factors that influence a community's effectiveness in fostering entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development.
Book Synopsis Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development by : Roland V. Anglin
Download or read book Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development written by Roland V. Anglin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicized and readily accessible. This reference surveys the breadth of innovative place and people development practices, presenting lessons and examples at a general and textured level, putting information about innovative ways to change, influence, and improve the economic development process within easy reach. Roland Anglin brings his unique vantage point to the topic; his experience as a practitioner and applied academic allowed him to see how community economic development practices grow over time in size, scale, and impact. He highlights the difference between what is now termed community economic development (CED) and traditional local economic development practice, specifically the priority placed on community involvement in economic development partnerships between the private sector and government. The book includes case studies that demonstrate what has and has not worked in revitalization efforts, as well as how active public and private sector partnerships have been the most effective in revitalization efforts. A Resource Guide is included at the end of the book for readers who may want a more expansive understanding of community economic development.
Book Synopsis Transforming Or Reforming Capitalism by : John Loxley
Download or read book Transforming Or Reforming Capitalism written by John Loxley and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing worldwide interest in community economic development has led to a blossoming of “how to” manuals,as well as analyses of co-operatives, development corporations, gender, financing, etc. Yet in all this discussion very little is said about the basic objective of CED: Is it designed to fill holes left by capitalism or is it intended to replace it? There is equally little on a theory of CED. This book draws on several disciplines -- particularly economics, sociology and political studies -- to assess the state of CED theory and to identify implicit issues for building that theory. It emphasizes the necessity to draw theoretical insights from each discipline, in the process howing the efficacy of interdisciplinary approaches. It concludes with a discussion of both future theoretical directions and of what existing theory has to say about achieving a transformative CED."--pub. website.
Book Synopsis Community Economic Development in Canada by : David James Anthony Douglas
Download or read book Community Economic Development in Canada written by David James Anthony Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community Organizing by : Joan Kuyek
Download or read book Community Organizing written by Joan Kuyek and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours. In this engaging and passionate book, long-time community organizer Joan Kuyek offers important insights and concrete tools to encourage people to get involved in social justice action at the community level. In Canada, activists are frustrated with their inability to effect change in the global economic system, overwhelmed by the number and complexity of issues and too often unaware or dismissive of the efforts of other activists. As a result, social forces for justice and the environment are fragmented and ineffective, and the economic elite grows more powerful. Community Organizing argues that it does not have to be this way. Suggesting that most of our attempts at change and community-building fail because we cannot get along with each other, Community Organizing starts at the community level to describe how we can work together and create organizations based on dignity and respect. It provides strategies to build movements from the community to assert democratic political power and tools to create a culture of hope in this time of despair. This book offers the means to reclaim political power in Canada.
Book Synopsis Community Economic Development by : Eric Shragge
Download or read book Community Economic Development written by Eric Shragge and published by University College of Cape Breton Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives. Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates. This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects--the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context. Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits--in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships--are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.
Book Synopsis State Policies to Enhance the New Economy: A Comparative Analysis by : Michael MacKenzie
Download or read book State Policies to Enhance the New Economy: A Comparative Analysis written by Michael MacKenzie and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As such, the vices, and a host of other facilities that promise development and growth of the New Economy to integrate individuals into the broader society is seen as the key to global competitiveness. [...] The Intellectual Capital erful reminder that the perceived importance of Partnership Program enables an employer to form the knowledge-based economy to the economic a partnership with a university or college and well-being of a jurisdiction encourages govern- design a program of study that prepares students ments to play an active role in deciding the for- for specific jobs in that company. [...] In general, however, there is no compre- motivate scientists to direct their knowledge and hensive effort, at either the provincial or national expertise toward solving the problems 'weaker' level, to increase the participation rates of those communities face.52 It is not possible to deter- segments of the population who are disenfran- mine from the information that the Government chised from, and [...] First, it is clear ysis down to the community level is important, in that the state is heavily involved in the promotion the final analysis Gurstein's work offers little new of the New Economy. [...] What enact changes in the structure of the state and is needed is an approach that relies far less on its internal processes that "shift the location of trying to influence the market decisions of cor- power, change the access to information of dif- porations, and which focuses more on develop- ferent social groups, and develop the capacities ing the capacities of disadvantaged communities.
Book Synopsis Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada by : John T. Pierce
Download or read book Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada written by John T. Pierce and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a sustainable community? The pressing need to answer this simple question is what prompted John Pierce and Ann Dale to gather the essays in this volume. Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada is a timely synthesis of work on how Canadian communities can achieve sustainable development. It bridges the gap between theory and praxis and brings together academics, policy makers, and community activists, all of whom have argued for increased local participation in sustainable community development. Communities have become the weak link in efforts to refashion relations between the environment and the economy. The goal of this book is not simply to describe problems but also to suggest answers, not simply to offer theory but also to promote action, so that Canadian communities can better achieve sustainable development.
Author :Lynda Henry Newman Publisher :University of Winnipeg, Institute of Urban Studies ISBN 13 : Total Pages :218 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Community Economic Development by : Lynda Henry Newman
Download or read book Community Economic Development written by Lynda Henry Newman and published by University of Winnipeg, Institute of Urban Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada by : Peter R. Elson
Download or read book Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada written by Peter R. Elson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada offers a detailed yet accessible account of nonprofit funding policies in a region characterized by fiscal conservatism, a cyclical resource-based economy, and a growing share of Canada’s population and GDP. The chapters in this collection offer compelling and candid analyses of the realities of nonprofit funding in Western Canada. Each combines practical insights with academic rigour, providing critical historical context and an up-to-date profile of funding for services. For each province, a leading practitioner has provided an insider perspective into a specific regime or organization: nonprofit housing in British Columbia; the politics of social policy in Alberta; sport, culture, and recreation, and lottery funds in Saskatchewan; and community economic development in Manitoba. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada offers a solid foundation on which policymakers, scholars, and practitioners alike can examine the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary funding environment.
Author :Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Publisher :Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives ISBN 13 :0886274524 Total Pages :44 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (862 download)
Book Synopsis The Promise of Investment in Community-Led Renewal: State of the Inner City Report 2005. Part I: Policy Considerations by : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Download or read book The Promise of Investment in Community-Led Renewal: State of the Inner City Report 2005. Part I: Policy Considerations written by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the leadership of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Mani- toba, the Working Group was comprised of the Community Education Development Association (CEDA); Inner-City Aboriginal Neighbours (I- CAN); the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre; the North End Community Renewal Corporation; the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence; the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg; the Spence Neighbo [...] The Promise of Investment in Community-Led Renewal State of the Inner City Report: 2005 Part I Policy Considerations Why a report on the state of the inner Most of us working in the inner city believe that city? [...] It is our hope that the State of the Inner This is the first time a State of the Inner City Re- City Report can assist in developing the most ef- port has been published in Winnipeg. [...] When we refer to the 'inner city' we mean the Third, we want to identify gaps in the work that geographic area originally defined by the 1980s is being done in the inner city. [...] The labour-force participation rate for 38.5% of adults (15 years of age and over) in the Winnipeg as a whole is still higher than for the inner city had less than a high-school education, inner city, at 68%, but unlike the case in the inner down significantly from 49% ten years earlier.
Book Synopsis The Inclusive Economy by : Michael D. Tanner
Download or read book The Inclusive Economy written by Michael D. Tanner and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor energetically challenges the conventional wisdom of both the right and the left that underlies much of the contemporary debate over poverty and welfare policy. Author and national public policy expert Michael Tanner takes to task conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” for their failure to account for the structural circumstances in which the poor live. In addition, he criticizes liberal calls for fighting poverty primarily through greater redistribution of wealth and new government programs. Rather than engaging in yet another debate over which government programs should be increased or decreased by billions of dollars, Tanner calls for an end to policies that have continued to push people into poverty. Combining social justice with limited government, his plan includes reforming the criminal justice system and curtailing the War on Drugs, bringing down the cost of housing, reforming education to give more control and choice to parents, and making it easier to bank, save, borrow, and invest. The comprehensive evidence provided in The Inclusive Economy is overwhelming: economic growth lifts more people out of poverty than any achievable amount of redistribution does. As Tanner notes, “we need a new debate, one that moves beyond our current approach to fighting poverty to focus on what works rather than on noble sentiments or good intentions.” The Inclusive Economy is a major step forward in that debate.
Book Synopsis A Future Beyond Growth by : Haydn Washington
Download or read book A Future Beyond Growth written by Haydn Washington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a fundamental denial at the centre of why we have an environmental crisis – a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However, society continues to ignore and deny this dependence. A Future Beyond Growth explores the reason why the endless growth economy is fundamentally unsustainable and considers ways in which society can move beyond this to a steady state economy. The book brings together some of the deepest thinkers from around the world to consider how to advance beyond growth. The main themes consider the deep problems of the current system and key aspects of a steady state economy, such as population; throughput and consumerism; ethics and equity; and policy for change. The policy section and conclusion bring together these various themes and indicates how we can move past the growth economy to a truly sustainable future. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of economics, sustainability and environmental studies in general.
Book Synopsis Transforming Provincial Politics by : Bryan M. Evans
Download or read book Transforming Provincial Politics written by Bryan M. Evans and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by-province analysis of politics and political economy in more than a decade, and the first to directly examine the turn to neoliberal policies at the provincial and territorial level and examines how neoliberal policies have affected politics in each jurisdiction in Canada.