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Reinventing Healthy Communities: Implications for Individual and Societal Well-Being

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue aims to focus on the contextual factors that characterize “healthy communities” and that impact individual development and well-being around the world. Researchers from various fields including biology, sociology, psychology, political science, history, women’s studies, urban planning and social work are encouraged to submit manuscripts involving theoretical, empirical, or practice-based studies.

Topics that would be appropriate for this issue would include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Studies that examine local poverty prevention efforts around the world.
  • Comparative studies involving access to quality health care, food, or shelter.
  • Evaluative research on local efforts to prevent and treat drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Research on the governance of community-based nonprofit organizations delivering social services.
  • Studies on community as it relates to healthy child development.
  • Historical or comparative analyses of efforts to promote sustainable community development.
  • Research on creative uses of social media in community-based social services.

Prof. Jerry D. Marx
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Social Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

References:

Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig. General Systems Theory:  Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller, 1968.
Blau, Peter M. Exchange & Power in Social Life. New York: Wiley, 1964.
Bronfenbrenner, Urie. The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Glaeser, Edward. Triumph of the City. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
New Urbanism. “Creating livable sustainable communities.” 2013. Available online: http://www.newurbanism.org/ (accessed on 9 June 2015).
Owen, David. Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability. New York: Penguin Books, 2009.
Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Roseland, Mark. Toward Sustainable Communities. Gabriola Island: New Society, 2012.

Keywords

  • child development
  • sustainable community development
  • health care access
  • nonprofit organizations, nongovernmental organizations
  • food security
  • affordable housing
  • poverty prevention

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