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COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 2011
In the urban context the quest to enhance economic growth and social well-being is challenged by the need to protect and manage natural resources. In order to promote sustainable urban planning, sustainability objectives are commonly embedded into planning policies, and the associated indicators used to evaluate planning interventions and monitor ...
Gonzalez, A., Donnelly, A., Jones, M., Klostermann, J.E.M., Groot, A.M.E., Breil, M.   +5 more
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Social Justice Approach to Community Development

Journal of Community Practice, 2013
If community development were viewed as a process to strengthen social justice in metropolitan areas, what would it be? At a time when many metropolitan areas are becoming more segregated and more diverse, this article formulates a new approach to address inequalities and recognize differences among community members.
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A community development approach to tobacco control

Health Education, 2003
This article considers the work of an adult education project, second chance learning (SCL), in helping its clients not only to try to stop smoking, but also to examine the place of tobacco in their lives. SCL undertook this work as one of three projects funded by the Argyll and Clyde Health Board in response to the 1998 publication of Smoking Kills ...
Black, M, McKie, Linda, Allen, E.
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Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Community Development

Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 2011
Heifer International has honed its approach over more than 60 years in the sustainable community development field. Integral components of Heifer's approach include: Heifer's Cornerstones—a set of values which includes the principle “Passing on the Gift,” and guides all of Heifer's work.
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Approaches to Community Development

The American Catholic Sociological Review, 1954
Lucian L. Lauerman, Phillips Roupp
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Community-Based Approaches to Early Childhood Development

2013
AbstractCommunity-based programs are a major service delivery outlet for early childhood programs, especially in underresourced and developing contexts. They provide scope for identifying and analyzing specific community issues and for prioritizing, designing, and managing activities at the local level.
Jacqueline Hayden, Sithu Wai
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A new approach to developing cross-cultural communication skills

Medical Teacher, 2004
The need for cross-cultural training (CCT) increases as physicians encounter more culturally diverse patients. However, most medical schools relegate this topic to non-clinical years, hindering skills development. Some residency programs have successfully addressed this deficit by teaching cross-cultural communication skills in a teaching objective ...
Joel, Rosen, Erica S, Spatz, Annelise M J, Gaaserud, Henry, Abramovitch, Baruch, Weinreb, Neil S, Wenger, Carmi Z, Margolis   +6 more
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Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health

2013
1. I can do it, you can do it: a community development approach to health promotion for individuals with disabilities M. Elizabeth Kemeny, Robert Arnold and Michael Marge 2. Community-wide obesity prevention: re-connecting public health, urban planning, and public policy in three Missouri communities Phillip Valko, Jennifer Allen, Cynthia Mense, Sarah ...
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Community development approaches to health needs assessment.

Health visitor, 1994
Community health needs assessment has traditionally been an integral part of the health visitor's public health activities. The NHS reforms, and in particular GP fundholding, threaten this aspect of their role. Stephen Peckham and Jacqui Spanton argue that, far from restricting the health visitor's work in this area, purchasers and providers should be ...
S, Peckham, J, Spanton
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Toward a Community Development Approach to Literacy

Community Development Society. Journal, 1991
The question of universal literacy was given fresh impetus by the United Nations' designation of 1990 as the International Literacy Year. In this paper, a community development approach to literacy is outlined. There are two generic models of literacy education: motivation/immersion and social structural.
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