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Community development practitioners often find themselves engaged in relatively short-term work, focused on particular issues such as improving housing conditions, advancing road safety at school crossings, or protecting aspects of the environment such as campaigns around river, air pollution, or greenhouse gas inventories. Community groups that form around these kinds of issues may be quite ephemeral and fade away again after a campaign has been successful. These constitute communities of interest or issue-based communities, which are usually focused upon a particular issue and look for a particular kind of expert practitioner to resolve the issue of concern.
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Flint, R.W. (2013). Building Capacity for Community Change. In: Practice of Sustainable Community Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5100-6_8
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