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Community Engagement

Community learning: Process, structure, and renewal

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Morse, Ricardo S
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Virginia
  • ISBN: 9780542339820
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Virginia

Community renewal is a dominant theme in American society today. It has been said that public administration could and should be a leader in the community renewal movement, yet for the most part the field of public administration fails to "get" community. This study advances and explores a concept of community learning as part of a broa ....

Community participation and regional crime

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Carlos Carcach; Cathie Huntley
  • Journal Name: Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Journal Number: 222
  • Country: Australia

Based on data for local government areas in the mainland eastern states this study shows that crime rates are lower in local areas with high levels of participation on community-oriented activities; includes short section on Indigenous population. Report Locationhttp://www.aic.gov.au/documents/0/2/8/%7B0280A17B-5E35-4402-B130-5FB03A7C ....

Community participation in rural primary health care: intervention or approach?

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Preston, Robyn; Waugh, Hilary; Larkins, Sarah; Taylor, Judy
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.16, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Community participation is considered important in primary health care development and there is some evidence to suggest it results in positive health outcomes. Through a process of synthesising existing evidence for the effectiveness of community participation in terms of health outcomes we identified several conceptual areas of confusion. This ....

Community safety in Australian Indigenous communities : service providers' perceptions

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Willis, Matthew
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781921532665
  • Country: Australia

This study investigates measures and perceptions of safety in Indigenous communities in Australia. It details the development of a questionnaire designed to capture perceptions of community safety in Indigenous communities, which is hoped will be utilised by organisations and service providers in their work. It also presents findin ....

Community voice: a new electronic communication model for local communities: a web development handbook for rural, regional and micro-communities

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Knox, Ian
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741511429
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Despite provision of funding to support the establishment of online communities, web sites and regional web portals in regional and rural communities, many projects fail or stall once the initial funding has been expended. This publication is intended for use by community groups to develop their own Internet communications strategy ....

Community-based rangeland management and social-ecological resilience of rural Mongolian communities

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Baival, Batkhishig
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Colorado State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Colorado
  • ISBN: 9781267361059
  • Country: Mongolia

This research is an attempt to apply a resilience framework to understand how pastoral social-ecological systems respond to change, and the potential role of formal CBRM institutions in this process. The resilience principles of Folke, Colding & Berkes (2003): (1) learning to live with change and uncertainty, (2) nurturing diversity ....

Community-based resource planning: studies from Zimbabwe and Northern Australia

  • Year: 2004
  • Editors: Thwaites RN; Norman PL
  • Publisher: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Zimbabwe, Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

A project was undertaken to enhance the capacity of resource managers, in particular the local occupants, to identify, plan and implement sustainable natural resource management options in tropical woodlands of Zimbabwe and northern Australia. The project involved the collaboration of government, non-government institutions and com ....

Community, Sustainability and Participation: Form-function Dilemmas in Tasmanian State-local Partnerships

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Crowley, Kate
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 3, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

The Tasmanian state-local partnership agreements program, instituted in 1998 by the late Premier Jim Bacon, is proving an innovation in the reorientation of inter-governmental affairs. The partnerships established thus far have totally transformed state-local relations. Indeed the program has been so successfully implemented that i ....

Comparing resident attitudes toward tourism: Community-based cases from Arctic Canada

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Stewart, Emma J.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Calgary (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494512142
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Arctic Canada

This research examines attitudes toward local tourism development held by a sample of stakeholders and residents in three Arctic Canadian communities: Churchill, Northern Manitoba, Cambridge Bay and Pond Inlet, both in Nunavut. This research is premised on the idea that complex phenomena such as tourism are best understood through the l ....

Competition or collaboration: local economic development, sustainability and small towns

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: O'Toole, K
  • Editors: Rogers, M. F. and Collins, Y. M. J.
  • Journal Name: The future of Australia's country towns
  • Publisher: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University
  • Published Location: Bendigo, Vic
  • ISBN: 1864465352
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This paper discusses public policy processes at the local level, using south west Victoria as an illustration. After describing the place of south west Victoria in the economic global world and within the national and state policy processes, the paper then discusses the place of local autonomy in small town development. Although lo ....

Connecting with Communities: How Local Government is Using Social Media to Engage with Citizens

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Howard, Anne
  • Publisher: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • ISBN: 9780987387707
  • Country: Australia

This report examines how Australian local government is adopting and using social media. Social media refers to a wide range of tools (such as Twitter and Facebook) that enable people and organisations to communicate using internet-based technologies, including smart phones. Social media enables a two-way communication, allowing people ....

Consumers and volunteers as collaborators: lessons from rural palliative care research

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Moorhouse, C
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference, Canberra
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This paper considers health service consumer and volunteer involvement in general, with particular consideration of some of the implications for rural health and for rural people. Specifically it addresses the potential role for health service consumers and volunteers in rural health research. Issues discussed include: the essence ....

Contested governance : culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Hunt, Janet
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781921536045
  • Country: Australia

'The research in this book aims to provide evidence and practical guidance for governments and Indigenous leaders about community governance in Indigenous Australia, and contribute to enhancing existing success. This book documents many of the challenges, opportunities and issues facing those engaged in trying to achieve legitimate ....

Cooperation and tolerance: restoring our economic system

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Kingma, O; Falk, I
  • Publisher: Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia, University of Tasmania
  • Published Location: Launceston, Tas
  • Country: Australia

This paper argues that present institutional settings in rural Australia are inadequate for the task of bringing about a culture which is fair and inclusive. The solution is seen to lie in policies for rural Australia that support an infusion of new values into our institutions - values associated with the development of bridging t ....

Creating a contemporary Common Property Resource (CPR) management institution

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Brunckhorst, D
  • Publisher: The Institute for Rural Futures - University of New England
  • Country: Australia

Rural communities face an uncertain future. These communities are reliant on the long term resilience of their productive resources, but often utilise these resources to resolve short term pressures. Their survival is dependent upon their ability to sustain their families by balancing social demands and the biophysical capacity of ....

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