Further resources

Communities

Canter, David. The Psychology of Place. Architectural Press; 1977.

A new edition is due out in 2023. 

Keller, Suzanne. The American dream of community: an unfinished agenda. Sociol Forum. 1988; 3(2): 167–183. doi:10.1007/BF01115289.

Parsfield, Matthew, David Morris, Manjit Bola, et al. Community Capital: The Value of Connected Communities. RSA Action and Research Centre; 2015.

Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon & Schuster; 2001. ISBN 978-0-74320-304-3.

Inequality

Richard, Wilkinson, Kate Pickett. The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone. Penguin; 2009. ISBN 978-0-14103-236-8.

ACEs and trauma

Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score. Penguin; 2014. ISBN 978-014197-861-1.

Healthcare

Davies, James. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis. Atlantic Books; 2021. ISBN: 978-1-78649-987-5.

Dowrick, Christopher. Beyond Depression: A New Approach to Understanding and Management. Oxford University Press; 2004. ISBN 978-0-19852-632-2.

Hart, Julian Tudor. The Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective. The Policy Press; 2006. ISBN 978-1-86134-808-1.

Illich, Ivan. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. Calder & Boyars; 1974. ISBN 978-0-71452-993-6.

Kitwood, Tom, Kathleen Bredin. Towards a theory of dementia care: personhood and well-being. Ageing Soc. 1992; 12: 269–287. doi: 10.1017/s0144686x0000502x.

Kleinman, Arthur, Anne E Becker. “Sociosomatics”: the contributions of anthropology to psychosomatic medicine. Psychosom Med. 1998; 60(4): 389–393. doi:10.1097/00006842-199807000-00001.

McKnight, John. The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits. BasicBooks; 1995. ISBN 978-0-46509-126-3.

Russell, Cormac. Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited. Gac Sanit. 2019; 33(6): 579–583. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2018.11.006.

Social prescribing

Bragg, Rachel, Gavin Atkins. A review of nature-based interventions for mental health care. Natural England Commissioned Reports, Number 204. 2016.

Friedli, Lynne, Catherine Jackson, Hilary Abernethy, Jude Stansfield. Social Prescribing for Mental Health – a Guide to Commissioning and Delivery. CSIP North West Social Prescribing Development Project; 2008. 

Social Prescribing team, Personalised Care Group NHSe. Social prescribing link workers: Reference guide for primary care networks – Technical Annex. June 2020. 

Social infrastructure

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Rapid Evidence Review of Community Initiatives. UK Government; 2022. 

Klinenberg, Eric. Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society. Crown; 2018. ISBN 978-1-78470-751-4.

Roe, Jenny, Layla McCay. Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury Visual Arts; 2021. ISBN 978-1-35011-288-9.

South, Jane. A Guide to Community-Centred Approaches for Health and Wellbeing. Public Health England; 2015. PHE publications gateway number: 2014711 

Swift, Carolyn, Gloria Levin. Empowerment: an emerging mental health technology. J Primary Prevent. 1987; 8: 71–94. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01695019

Wilcox, David. The Guide to Effective Participation. Brighton: Partnership Books; 1994. ISBN 978-1-87029-800-1.

Yarker, Sophie. Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. Emerald Publishing; 2022. ISBN 978-1-83982-739-6.

Planetary health

Costello, Anthony, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen, et al. Managing the health effects of climate change. The Lancet. 2009; 373(9676): 1693–1733. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60935-1.

Hallegatte, Stephane, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Mook Bangalore, Julie Rozenberg. Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters. In Climate Change and Development Series. World Bank; 2017. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1003-9;  

Hulme, Mike. Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity. Cambridge University Press; 2009. ISBN 978-0-52172-732-7.

IPCC. Summary for Policymakers. In Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.). Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press; 2021. 

The IPCC report is essential reading to understand the reality of the climate challenge we face. 

Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House; 2017. ISBN 978-1-84794-139-8.

Rockström, Johan, Will Steffen, Kevin J. Noone, et al. Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecol Soc. 2009; 14(2): 32. 

Watts, Nick, W Neil Adger, Paolo Agnolucci, et al. Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health. Lancet. 2015; 386(10006): 1861–1914. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60854-6.  

Webb, Jonathan, Lucy Stone, Luke Murphy, Jack Hunter. The Climate Commons: How Communities Can Thrive in a Climate Changing World. Institute for Public Policy Research; 2021.

Sustainable policy

Coote, Anna, Andrew Percy. The Case for Universal Basic Services. Polity; 2020. ISBN: 978-1-50953-983-3.

Hickel, Jason. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. William Heinemann; 2020. ISBN 978-1-786-091215.

Low Impact Co-operative. www.lowimpact.org

Macfadyen, Peter. Flatpack Democracy 2.0. Eco-logic Books; 2020. ISBN 978-1-899233-27-4.

The Turing Way Community. (2021). The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible, Ethical and Collaborative Research (1.0.1). Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3233853.

Community development

Abel, Julian. Survival of the Kindest Podcast.

Abel, Julian, Lindsay Clarke. The Compassion Project: A Case for Hope and Humankindness from the Town That Beat Loneliness. Aster; 2020. ISBN 978-1-78325-336-4.

Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. Vintage Books; 1989. ISBN 978-0-67972-113-0.

Bagnall, Anne-Marie, Jane South Jane, Salvatore Di Martino, et al. Places, Spaces, People and Wellbeing: Full Review. A Systematic Review of Interventions to Boost Social Relations through Improvements in Community Infrastructure (Places and Spaces). What works wellbeing; 2018. 

Cottam, Hilary. Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State. Virago; 2018. ISBN 978-0-34900-909-4.

Kahn, Si. Organizing, a Guide for Grassroots Leaders. NASW Press; 1992. ISBN 978-0-87101-197-8.

Lent, Adam, Grace Pollard, Jessica Studdert. A Community-Powered NHS: Making Prevention a Reality. New Local; 2022. 

McKnight, John, Peter Block. The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc; 2012. ISBN 978-1-60994-081-2.

Russell, Cormac. Rekindling Democracy: A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space. Cascade Books; 2020. ISBN 978-1-72525-363-6.

Russell, Cormac, John McKnight. The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods. Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc; 2022. ISBN 978-1-52300-252-8.