Cornelia Butler Flora
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cornelia Butler Flora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cornelia Butler |
| FAMILY NAME | Flora |
| SIGNATURE | FLORA C B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rural Communities
"Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use th…
Democratizing democracy as community development
While many English speaking community developers are familiar with the early work of popular education in Latin America that sprang up during years of dictatorship, most are not aware of the advances in theory and practice our Latin American and Caribbean colleagues created during the era of re-democratization from the mid-1980s into the second decade of the twenty-first century. The social movement linking popular education, community developmen…
Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Attention has shifted to environmental causes of health status, particularly obesity, now defined as a worldwide epidemic. Moving from medical and educational models of intervention, this approach focuses on how changes in the social and physical environment enhance families and individuals to make health choices. Using illustrations from current intervention programs, we demonstrate how a community capitals approach can help identify what is in …
Leadership as Community Capacity Building
Leadership development programs have documented positive impacts on individuals, but there is much less evidence of long-term community impacts. To explore the relationship between leadership development and community capacity, interview data from participants in a 1987 multicounty leadership program were collected and analyzed. Community impacts were assessed using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to determine impacts on community capacity as defined b…
Leadership as Community Capacity Building
Leadership development programs have documented positive impacts on individuals, but there is much less evidence of long-term community impacts. To explore the relationship between leadership development and community capacity, interview data from participants in a 1987 multicounty leadership program were collected and analyzed. Community impacts were assessed using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to determine impacts on community capacity as defined b…
Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Attention has shifted to environmental causes of health status, particularly obesity, now defined as a worldwide epidemic. Moving from medical and educational models of intervention, this approach focuses on how changes in the social and physical environment enhance families and individuals to make health choices. Using illustrations from current intervention programs, we demonstrate how a community capitals approach can help identify what is in …
Democratizing democracy as community development
While many English speaking community developers are familiar with the early work of popular education in Latin America that sprang up during years of dictatorship, most are not aware of the advances in theory and practice our Latin American and Caribbean colleagues created during the era of re-democratization from the mid-1980s into the second decade of the twenty-first century. The social movement linking popular education, community developmen…
Rural Communities
"Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use th…
Leadership as Community Capacity Building
Leadership development programs have documented positive impacts on individuals, but there is much less evidence of long-term community impacts. To explore the relationship between leadership development and community capacity, interview data from participants in a 1987 multicounty leadership program were collected and analyzed. Community impacts were assessed using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to determine impacts on community capacity as defined b…
Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Attention has shifted to environmental causes of health status, particularly obesity, now defined as a worldwide epidemic. Moving from medical and educational models of intervention, this approach focuses on how changes in the social and physical environment enhance families and individuals to make health choices. Using illustrations from current intervention programs, we demonstrate how a community capitals approach can help identify what is in …
Rural Communities
"Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use th…
Democratizing democracy as community development
While many English speaking community developers are familiar with the early work of popular education in Latin America that sprang up during years of dictatorship, most are not aware of the advances in theory and practice our Latin American and Caribbean colleagues created during the era of re-democratization from the mid-1980s into the second decade of the twenty-first century. The social movement linking popular education, community developmen…
Community development (2 works) · Community Health and Development (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Service-Learning and Community Engagement (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 307.72 (1 work) · Business (1 work)