EBOOK Empowerment on an Unstable Planet:From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change -

EBOOK Empowerment on an Unstable Planet:From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199924318
EAN: 41CB9FECEB
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Stron: 296
Data wydania: 2011
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Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion        dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and        environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world        still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all live        declines dramatically. There are clear limits to what further investments at this        rate can achieve. This book advances the thesis that a more effective and universal        foundation for social change and environmental restoration is not money, but human        energy.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.

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