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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
12. Evaluating Community Improvement
Author : R. Warren Flint, Ph.D.
Published in: Practice of Sustainable Community Development
Publisher: Springer New York
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Abstract
Around the world, many programs and interventions have been developed to improve conditions in local communities. Communities come together to reduce levels of violence, to work for safe, affordable housing, or to help improve the water quality in their local ecosystems, to give just a few examples. But how do we know whether these programs are working? If they are not effective, and even if they are, how can we make them better? And finally, how can community leaders make intelligent choices about which promising programs are working best in their community over the long-term?