Local Development & Society

Interested in proposing a book in your area of community development? The Routledge-Community Development Society Book Series offers a range of options to publish your work.

Building on a history of more than 50 years publishing Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, this book series seeks to contribute to the field’s growing and rapidly changing knowledge base as a resource for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers alike. The books provide timely, useful, theoretical and applied information.

The series is interested in new proposals on all topics within community development, including

• Climate justice
• DEI (Race, LGBTQ, etc.)
• Gender equity (especially mobilisation around reproductive rights)
• Youth empowerment/engagement
• Mental health/Well-being
• International approached to community development
• Community as a mechanism to counter social polarization (political, social, religious etc)
• Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, community development, and social change

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