The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the
most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life
in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in
relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first
part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and
tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of
centrally involving community members in all phases of community
development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters
and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States,
Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers
topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and
empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy
cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new
gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the
recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate
risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and
scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes
contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical
sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers,
social workers, and sustainability researchers.
The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book
Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International
Sociological Association.
