Community economic development / edited by Rhonda G. Phillips and Terry L. Besser.

'This book is a reproduction of articles from various issues of Community development'--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rhonda Phillips and Terry L. Besser -- Achieving sustainable economic development in communities / Ron Shaffer -- Gleaners, do-gooders, and balers : options for linking sustainability and economic development / Ted K. Bradshaw and Karri Winn -- The community and economic development chain : validating the links between processes and outcomes / Robert Pittman, Evan Pittman, Rhonda Phillips, and Joe Cangelosi -- Economic development in the nonmetropolitan West : the influence of built, natural, and social capital / Jessica Crowe -- Development of last resort : the impact of new state prisons on small town economies in the United States / Terry L. Besser and Margaret M. Hanson -- Chain stores and local economies : a case study of a rural county in New York / Stephan Halebsky -- Micro businesses as an economic development tool : what they bring and what they need / Glenn Muske and Michael Woods -- Citizen participation in nonprofit economic development organizations / Daniel Monroe Sullivan -- Community development corporations as vehicles of community economic development : the case of rural Manitoba / Kenneth C. Bessant.