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‘A more excellent way’: Developing coalitions and consensus through informal networking

Alison Gilchrist.

in Community Development Journal

April 1998; published online April 1998.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 0 words.

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Aboriginal Issues in Perspective: Native Title Rights and Self-determination

Peter Yu.

in Community Development Journal

April 1996.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 0 words.

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The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China

Kaxton Siu.

in Community Development Journal

April 2013; published online February 2013.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 933 words.

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Achieving broader benefits from Indigenous land use agreements: community development in Central Australia

Danielle Campbell and Janet Eileen Hunt.

in Community Development Journal

April 2013; published online September 2012.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 5567 words.

Research on a range of agreements between Indigenous people and extractive industries suggests that equitable benefits from such activity on Indigenous land are rare. In Central Australia, the...

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Achieving sustainable livelihoods – a case study of a Mexican rural community

Nina Perez.

in Community Development Journal

April 2002; published online April 2002.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 0 words.

The case study of a Mexican rural community is used to analyse the concept of ‘sustainable livelihoods’. San Felipe is a small semi‐arid community that has been the beneficiary of a...

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Active learning for active citizenship: participatory approaches to evaluating a programme to promote citizen participation in England

Marjorie Mayo and Alison Rooke.

in Community Development Journal

July 2008; published online May 2008.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 3568 words.

This article begins by exploring the contested notions of participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation, identifying some of the possible pitfalls, including the dangers of tokenism, if...

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Adolescence and Youth

Helena Helve.

in Childhood Studies

Published online March 2012.

Article. Subjects: development studies. 9909 words.

Social-science and humanistic research has focused mainly on young people in the United States and western Europe. Currently, however, researchers throughout the world are increasingly...

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Adoption and Fostering

Rachael Stryker.

in Childhood Studies

Published online March 2012.

Article. Subjects: development studies. 17963 words.

Adoption and fostering are any customary or optional procedures for taking as one’s own a child of other parents. The term adoption usually refers to the legal transformation of a...

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Advancing citizenship: a study of social planning

Ken Moffatt Usha George, Bill Lee and Susan McGrath.

in Community Development Journal

October 1999; published online October 1999.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 0 words.

Based on a study of five social planning organizations in the province of Ontario, the authors argue that the concept of social planning needs to be expanded. The definition of social planning as...

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The adventures of Case Connie (1975): a tool for reflecting on practice?

in Community Development Journal

October 2007; published online October 2007.

Journal Article. Subjects: development studies. 65 words.

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