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This book explores the relationship between leadership and community involvement, and discovers how making these two elements more complementary one to the other can lead to more effective as well as legitimate policy outcomes.

This article examines the processes and outcomes of community involvement in six Irish urban regeneration case studies, three in Dublin and three in Belfast. The findings are part of a wider study using a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective to analyse public sector decision making. Key points included: (1) the community 'vision' of the regeneration as an emergent property, which converged towards the vision held by the implementing agencies in the four most successful programmes; and (2) the identification of three features that contribute to non-linear (unpredictable) behaviour: a history of community involvement; the availability of resources; and the intervention of key individuals at crisis points.

AbstractAs its major form of community involvement in its Installation Restoration Program (IRP), the Department of Defense (DOD) created Restoration Advisory Boards (RABs). These RABs serve the purpose of providing citizen input into DOD's cleanup approaches to abandoned hazardous waste situations at its various installations. At first, this approach applied only to installations slated for closure, but now it has been applied to all installations. This article covers such factors as the history of RABs, their mission and locations and the good and not‐so‐good results of their use. Recommendations are presented for possible improvements.

Although rural tourism enterprises have played crucial roles in the prosperity of tourist destinations, environmental contamination due to corporate behaviour is also an important issue to consider. In this study, we introduce corporate community involvement theory to explore the antecedents and contingency effects of corporate green behaviour for tourist destination sustainability from the perspective of tourism corporate social responsibility. Using first-hand survey data collected in Guangdong and Anhui provinces, and matching second-hand data from the statistical yearbook and tourist destination government work reports, we found that corporate community involvement has a positive impact on the green behaviour of rural tourism enterprises. This association is moderated by place identity and the gross tourism receipts of destinations. By doing so, this research extends the scope of tourism environmental governance from &lsquo ; the bottom&rsquo ; (for tourists) to &lsquo ; the top&rsquo ; (for tourism enterprises). Meanwhile, this research provides feasible advice to policymakers by highlighting the coordination value of enterprises&rsquo ; initiative strategies (e.g., corporate community involvement) and destination contingency.

Do local media contribute to individuals' involvement in a community? The "community integration hypothesis" has long held they do, but a recent test based on a stricter measurement criterion shows the extent of contribution may have been overestimated. Results also suggest some media contribute more than others, and the relative contribution of each medium depends upon the individual's stage of settling into the community. The study is based on a probability telephone survey of 432 respondents.