TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallman,Sandra
AU  - Bond,Virginia
AU  - Montouri,Maria Alessia
AU  - Vidali,Mai
AU  - Lo Conte,Rossella
TI  - Capability of places : methods for modelling community response to intrusion and change
SN  - 9780745331454 
U1  - 307.14 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Research
KW  - Communities
KW  - Community development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index; Themes and a model -- London, ethnicity or localism? -- Rome, migrants and migration -- Zambia, terrains and tuberculosis -- Three sets of methods, one methodology -- Towards typology
N2  - "How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.  In this ... work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system which is more or less open or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when faced with external challenges.  As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the book includes detailed accounts of the research methods used, as well as a user-friendly typology for classifying local systems, making it an invaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers."--Publisher's website
ER  -