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This book helps administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning take serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. It provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to incorporating the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum.

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This book is a reference for administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who want to link their educational mission to helping surrounding communities. It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach, incorporating research findings across the disciplines about integrating community service in traditional coursework.

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This book is a reference for administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who want to link their educational mission to helping surrounding communities. It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach, incorporating research findings across the disciplines about integrating community service in traditional coursework.

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Focuses on communal or corporate understanding of identity. This book assesses the topic of identity from the perspectives of theology and religious studies. It seeks to address the issue of interaction between religious communities and wider society by looking at case studies from the Yorkshire area.

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The Mobiltown experiment demonstrates how the cost of newly introduced social gaps are countered by the benefits of the status enhancement of the entire community.

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Six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life, the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree, and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These essays aim to encourage students, academics, and interested citizens outside the academy to go farther and dig deeper into these vital issues.

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Helps readers understand the fascination with do-it-yourself media. Useful for students, this guide lays out the difficult theoretical terrain that community media theory and advocacy has located itself in, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

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This text looks to the history of "the commons" in American and European social thought to better understand contemporary environmental problems. The authors reveal the law's insufficient comprehension of community rights and advocate realistic policy alternatives.

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Current trends in police reform stress much greater interaction with the community and, consequently, carry new implications for police roles, operations, and social control.

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The contributors to this volume demonstrate that it is now possible to undertake community prevention trials of alcohol-involved problems with the same precision, good design, and careful planning that has characterized similar prevention trials for heart disease and cancer prevention.

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Providing unique global perspectives on community psychology, this is exciting and important reading for students and researchers alike, written by leading experts in the field. Drawing on a wealth of experience and examples, it offers an essential guide to the political global context of this fast-developing area of psychology.

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Rossi develops a theory of the roles of action (social actor) and structure (sociopolitical resources, cultural resources, and economic resources) in disaster studies, using the data on community reconstruction after the 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy as a preliminary test of the theory.

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Reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While aware of the strengths of community service programmes to the development of schools and society, the author believes that behind these good intentions, there is a certain ambivalence.

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Community visioning and strategic planning programs have become increasingly important in recent years as local governments in rural areas have searched for innovative ways to revitalize their local economies or manage population growth. A panel of experts describes local government programs in ten states.

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America is experiencing a boom of voluntarism and civic mindedness. Community groups are working together to clean up their cities and neighborhoods. People are rejoining churches, civic associations, and Little Leagues.

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This book is a study of collective efficacy in eight neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Using residential surveys, observations, and new methods of statistical and mapping analysis (kriging), the book provides a number of important findings relevant to the theory itself, ramifications for its use within communities, and implications for current and future research.

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Community, Democracy, and the Environment explores the character of the community and polity in the United States, reviews the orientations of Americans to the environment and environmental policy, and suggests some directions for how people may better learn to share the future with each other and the other species on the planet.

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Features a case study of a 'planned unit development' in America, Twin Rivers. This book traces the birth and unfolding of Twin Rivers from a former potato field into a community. It reveals the community of Twin Rivers through a multidimensional social microscope. It is intended for social scientists, architects, and physical planners.

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A study, rooted in philosophical anthropology and metaphysics, of the meaning of community, which discusses such questions as what constitutes a community, what its language reveals, how to distinguish genuine community from its counterfeits, and how a community is established.