Research Catalog

Title

Community economic development / edited by Graham Haughton.

Publication

London : Stationery Office, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haughton, Graham
• Regional Studies Association.

Description

xiv, 260 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This new book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh, theoretical, methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand the ways in which communities are facing up to the challenges of devising and bringing about their own revitalisation."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Regions, cities and public policy

Uniform Title

Regions, cities and public policy series

Subject

Community development, Urban > Great Britain

Note

• Published in association with the Regional Studies Association.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Putting the Community into Economic Development: Challenges to Social Exclusion and to the Economic Orthodoxy -- 1. Community Economic Development: Challenges of Theory, Method and Practice / Graham Haughton -- 2. Regeneration, Community and the Social Economy / Alison West -- 3. The Role of Community Enterprise in Local Economic Development: Beyond the Job Creation Agenda? / Mark Hart and Richard MacFarlane -- II. Governance and Community: Engaging Strategically, Building Capacity and Developing Local Legitimacy -- 4. Partnership and Local Development in the European Union / Mike Geddes -- 5. Countering Urban Social Exclusion: the Role of Community Participation in Urban Regeneration / Rob Atkinson -- 6. Reshaping Local Governance in a Divided Society: District Partnerships in Northern Ireland / Jonathon Greer, Joanne Hughes, Colin Knox and Michael Murray --^
• 7. Informal Economic Activity in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Some Case Study Evidence from Leicester / Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank -- 8. Politics, Practice and Participation: Community Economic Development and the Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund / Kevin G. Ward -- III. Making a Difference: Devising, Implementing and Evaluating Community Economic Development Strategies and Projects -- 9. Making It Count: Valuing and Evaluating Community Economic Development / Gill Seyfang -- 10. LETS Get Down to Business! Problems and Possibilities of Involving the Small-Business Sector in Community Economic Development Using Local Currencies / Peter North -- 11. The Third Sector and Local Economic Development in a Peripheral Scottish City: the Case of Dundee / Barbara Illsley and Tony Jackson -- 12. Food, Forestry and Farming in an Urban Environment: Cuthelton/Lilybank Employment Group -- Case Study of a Neighbourhood Community Business / Mike Danson, Jim Lister and Isabel Wilson --^
• 13. Approaches to Community Economic Development: Contrasting Styles of Community-led Regeneration in Bradford, England / Steve Littlewood and Celia Moran -- IV. Conclusions: Lessons from the Past and Present, Lessons for the Future -- 14. Communities and Regions in Economic Development: Lessons from the Past / Stephen Caunce -- 15. The Re-emergence of Community Economic Development in Britain: the European Dimension to Grassroots Involvement in Local Regeneration / Graham Haughton, Peter Lloyd and Richard Meegan -- 16. The Future of Community Economic Development / Graham Haughton.

ISBN

0117023779

OCLC

• 41660836
• SCSB-11332180

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library