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This handbook targets community leaders and provides specific information for how to work with the community to undertake three different Asset Mapping approaches: the Whole Assets approach, the Storytelling Approach, and the Heritage Approach.

The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) began in 2003 to create and organize a database of resources and tools of various practitioners in the field of dialogue and deliberation. Over 2,000 resources are summarized with web links.

Published twice annually, this online journal of the built and natural environments features literary, technical, journalistic and artistic works of varying styles surveying planning issues, ecology, and other issues relating to land and landscapes.

Energizing Entrepreneurs is a toolkit of resources for communities looking to promote rural entrepreneurship as a mechanism for economic development.

This chapter and quick guide from the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook explains the importance of partnerships within a community and provides tips for building and maintaining these relationships.

This “Citizen Science Toolbox”, created by Griffith University, is a database of tools and strategies to engage stakeholders in land-based decision making.

A collection of tools and methods helpful in consensus-building and decision-making processes—-especially in rural communities—-this toolkit is continuously updated with case studies and recommendations submitted by real Canadian communities.

This chapter in the Heart & Soul Handbook explains the steps necessary to perform a Community Network Analysis in a town, a process in which a community can identify formal and informal networks, stakeholder groups, and assets.

Written for communities hoping to increase youth participation in the planning process, this toolkit provides practical methods and examples of how asset mapping can be used in the field of community planning.

YES! Magazine is a non-profit publication highlighting diverse forms of activism and encouraging solutions-oriented dialogue across the globe on topics relating to justice and sustainability in politics, the environment, social and cultural issues.