| Abstract: | This first issue in Volume 42 once again illustrates the Journal'sbreadth of coverage and its unique capacity to address theoreticaland practice issues across the globe. It brings together a numberof articles that focus on community development dilemmas withinthe developed north and underdeveloped south. In many respects,the contexts are very different but many of the concerns areshared, including the persistent but usually frustrating attemptsto identify reliable 'models' of practice based upon sound evidence.In a recent special issue (Brocklesby, Fisher and Hintjens (Eds.),Volume 38, number 3, July 2003), CDJ examined the potentialof a sustainable livelihoods approach when community developmentprinciples and practices are applied. In continuing the dialogue,Yiheyis Maru and Keith Woodford have developed a 'resourcesand shaping forces' model, |
