Communities across the country are integrating smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development approaches to design and build healthy, sustainable, and inclusive neighborhoods. Overburdened communities are using smart growth strategies to address longstanding environmental and health challenges and create new opportunities where they live.

The United States National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations (NACEDA) was formed in 2006 by 11 state community economic development association leaders who saw the need to strengthen the bonds between community organizations for mutual benefit through sharing of expertise, capacity, and resources; and to bridge the divide between policy

This is a paper by Yvon Poirier, Chair of CCEDNet's International Committee, on local development and the social economy in Québec that was published as part of an ebook on international approaches to local development by LDNet. LDNet is an European organization set up as a reference centre for the new European Union Community-Led Local Development program for the 2014-2020 period.

Over 64 municipal and regional governments across Canada are using a food systems approach to improve health, generate economic development, address environmental sustainability, and engage communities.

It is generally accepted by economic development professionals and municipal officials that new real estate development will not only enhance the economic base of the community, but that it will also expand the tax base.

In this paper the authors test the hypothesis that local economic concentration is associated with decreased levels of civic participation. They define economic concentration as a social context in which a small number of corporate establishments or industries dominate a local economy.