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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet
By Taylor
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Description
Using this approach Tibet recovered from being nearly deforested to having over 40% of its land area protected under conservation management. Using principles outlined in this book mothers in northeast India implemented a package of life-changing actions that halved child mortality. They parallel the way New York City has created a citywide conservation program over three-and-a-half centuries. Each of these examples is particular to its time and place, yet a shared set of principles is at work in all of them.
Improving the quality of life for a community starts by strengthening successes already operating. It involves local knowledge and a relatively simple set of principles, tasks, and criteria designed to empower communities. This highly readable account demonstrates how a comprehensive process for social change harnesses the energy of a community and scales it up with a rising number of participants becoming invested in increasingly high-quality work. Richly illustrated with photographs and stories of innovative people and programs in communities ranging from Nepal to Afghanistan to the South Bronx, it provides practical, proven guidelines for creating profound and sustained social change that begins in individual communities and grows to scale.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2011-11-17
Publication Date:
2009-04-21
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199842965
ISBN13:
9780199842964
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
611 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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