The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. A key text for all students and practitioners working with communities, it includes:
• a broad overview of core themes, concepts, basic practices and key issues in community development;
• an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on community life and well-being, along with the implications for longer-term community support; 
• additional brand new content on the pressing issues of democratic decline, social fragmentation and isolation, social care pressures, technological developments and climate change.