Collaborative Stewardship: Analytical Approach to Improving Quality of Life in Communities rests upon the idea that community should be seen as a living organism, one for which specific functions need to be in working order for the community to survive and then operate at peak performance. To date, researchers have tended to approach development from the perspective of community actors and actions rather than assessing the overall vitality of the jurisdiction, which if the answer to that question were pursued, it would entail giving consideration to the systematic review of contagion and interdependency of internal workings associated with the configuration of entities resident there. This book introduces a paradigm for evaluating collaborative policy and program activity; and, the parameters within which such evaluations may take place.
