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Community Violence, Perceived Neighborhood Quality, Collectivism and Children’s Life Satisfaction: A Cross-national Perspective
While community violence is recognized as a salient risk factor in the developmental trajectory of children, our comprehension of the underlying...
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Think Globally, Act Locally? Evaluating Boston Climate Projects’ Community Engagement
Successful climate change mitigation, adaptation, and transformation will require a balance of bottom-up, community-led planning and engagement with...
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Community policing and recovery: a case study following a mass shooting in the UK
This article draws upon research conducted as part of an officially sponsored evaluation into one part of a recovery programme, put in place...
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Community Building Through Place-Making Activities: Older Landscapers in a Singaporean Residential Town
This paper explores how some older residents in B Town, a residential estate in northern Singapore, engage in community building through their...
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Community Intervention in Poverty-Alleviation Social Work
Community work is one of the three major social work approaches, along with casework and group work with. It regards the community and all of its...
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Community Revitalization in Poverty-Alleviation Social Work
Before discussing community revitalization in poverty-alleviation social work, it is necessary to clarify its relationship with community...
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Exploring Select U. S. Community Foundations and COVID-19 Responsive Community Philanthropy
This article examines the extent that community foundations (CFs) are funding COVID-19 mitigation in their communities. We examine 877 of the 894...
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Sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” Project
This chapter aims to assess the sustainability of the “Community Action for Health” project by expanding on the continuity of project activities,...
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Community and the Practice of Care
The areas that affect health extend beyond the hospital or clinic. This chapter explores health experiences in the context of community, family, and...
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Social network mechanisms of price formation in an artisanal fishing community in Chile
Local fish markets play a crucial role in meeting local and regional demand for seafood. However, the underlying social and local processes...
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Agents of Change: The Role LEAD Plays in Identity Formation, Community Engagement, and Social Justice Advocacy
Higher education institutions have a role to equip students with skills for community engagement and civic participation through a variety of...
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Q methodologist views on the future of Q: a study of a research community
It has been almost 90 years since William Stephenson’s 1935 letter to Nature that opened the door for Q methodology [Q]. Criticisms and excitement...
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A System Dynamics Approach to Rural Community Resilience: Learnings from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper uses a system dynamics approach to explain how the existing socio-economic conditions in a rural region in India interact with external...
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The Community Development in the Italian Third Sector
Community Development (CD) is a process to favour the socio-economic development of communities through the engagement of citizens, social workers,...
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Empowering Youth in Solving Community-Based Problems
This chapter explores how South African youth learn how to solve community-based social problems through their membership in the Youth Citizens...
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Higher education and social responsibility: a proposal for internationalization of university—community engagements; perspectives from Uganda
One of the traditional missions for universities was community service which was updated to entail community engagement. Community engagement is a...
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Diaspora and Community as Social Construction
The term diaspora evolved from its classical reference of simply ‘sowing a seed across’ to its contemporary usage of peoples’ dispersion, often...
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Narratives of Differentiation and the Religious Rift at Goiabal Community in Campos dos Goytacazes
The article focuses on the conflicting relationship between religious institutions in the community of Goiabal, located in the city of Campos dos...
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The Structure of the Community Niche
Within the context of topography and settlement pattern, the operation of the Q’ero community niche in the local ecosystem may be further analyzed in...
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Governmentality Versus Community: The Impact of the COVID Lockdowns
The COVID lockdowns were characterised by new forms of governmentality as lives were disrupted and controlled through the vertical transmission of...