International and Community Development: Books & e-books

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Useful books and eBooks available from the VU Library.

Books (print format)

Promoting Community Change: Making It Happen in the Real World

Addresses the real-world issues facing professionals in social work, human services, and community health

Community Development in an Uncertain World

The book explores the interrelated frameworks of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment thinking, drawing on various sources including the wisdom of Indigenous peoples.

The Globalization Reader

Offers a most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.

Human Rights from Below

Book shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals.

Participatory Practice

Innovative approach bridges the divide between ideas and practice and allows the development of the knowledge that is needed to bring about transformative social change.

NGO Management

The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership.

eBooks on Community Development

The Capability of Places : methods for modelling community response to intrusion and change

Collaborating with community-based organizations through consultation and technical assistance

Collaborative Resilience : moving through crisis to opportunity

Collective Visioning : how groups can work together for a just and sustainable future

Coming together : two cultures, one life : community development with Sudanese refugees: a case study (print format)

Community Capacity Building : creating a better future together

Community Development Reader : History, Themes & Issues (U.K.)

Community Development (U.S. Reader)

Community Development and civil society : making connections in the European context

Community Development around the world : practice, theory, research, training

Community Development in Asia and the Pacific

Community Development through tourism (print format)

Community Practice skills : local to global perspectives

Community Visioning Programs : Processes and Outcomes

Contesting community : the limits and potential of local organizing

Democracy as problem solving : civic capacity in communities across the globe

Ethnicities and values in a changing world

From white Australia to Woomera: the story of Australian immigration

Handbook of Community Practice

Human Rights from below: achieving rights through Community Development By Jim Ife

Introduction to Community Development

Key Concepts in Community Studies (print format)

Kitchen table sustainability : practical recipes for community engagement with sustainability

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Living in common and deliberating in common : foundational issues for sustainable human security

Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts

Popular education practice for youth and community development work

Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century

Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World

Social Cohesion In Australia

Well-connected community : a networking approach to community development