"This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first systematic ethnographic study I know that treats volunteers and the institutions they create." -John Van Til, author of Growing Civil Society
"Students and faculty interested in the issue of homelessness will find the book instructive... Recommended." -Choice
Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How does voluntary participation foster moral development in volunteers to create a better...
"This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first systematic ethnographic study I know ...
In recent years, the dramatic rise in chronic disease rates in cities and towns has resulted in the development of policies facilitating physical activity and neighbourly interactions as antidotes. This volume higlights a number of such community development efforts, bringing attention to the need to coordinate planning.This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.
In recent years, the dramatic rise in chronic disease rates in cities and towns has resulted in the development of policies facilitating physical acti...
As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places envisioned these situations. Public health, community development planning, and other fields influencing the built environment have operated in isolation for much of recent history, with the result being places that public health advocates have labelled, 'designed for disease'. The sad irony of this is that...
As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and...
