Since its birth in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the field of comprehensive community
initiatives (CCIs) has been struggling to find evaluation strategies and methodologies that …

Dispersal is fundamental in determining biodiversity responses to rapid climate change, but
recently acquired ecological and evolutionary knowledge is seldom accounted for in either …

This book offers a progress report on work accomplished over the last few years in comprehensive
community initiatives (CCIs), a relatively new approach to community revitalization. …

Although generations of researchers have studied the factors that limit the distributions of
species, we still do not seem to understand this phenomenon comprehensively. Traditionally, …

This volume examines the accomplishments of community change efforts over the past two
decades and identifies priority issues around which policy, practice, and learning agendas …

Roughly 40 years after its introduction, the metapopulation concept is central to population
ecology. The notion that local populations and their dynamics may be coupled by dispersal is …

Transgenerational environmental effects can trigger strong phenotypic variation. However, it
is unclear how cues from different preceding generations interact. Also, little is known about …

Bioclimate envelope models (BEMs) have often been criticized as being too simplistic due
to eg not incorporating effects of biotic interactions or evolutionary adaptation. However, …

Comprehensive community building initiativesâ•flten years later: What we have learned about
the principles guiding the work Page 1 NEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, …

Foundations have played a major role in the CCI field. In the late 1980s, the Ford, Rockefeller,
and Annie E. Casey foundations all launched multisite CCIs, and marked the emergence …