Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures
Just and Lasting Exchange: When Communities Own Their Futures Books
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This book proposes a new approach to helping communities worldwide make healthier and cleaner living environments.
Just and Lasting Exchange presents how to transform communities rapidly and in locally apt ways. Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl Taylor have been bestow at key events and worked with key thinkers in dealing with the large forces of difference, environmental exchange, and globalization. The approach they have synthesized builds on what has worked over the last century—and can now be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively in many parts of the world. It relies on a three-way partnership of “bottom-up” initiatives from the community level, “top-down” support from government agencies, and “outside-in” ingenuity and detachment from experts. Based on both a diverse range of case studies—from the earliest attempts to promote social development in India a century ago to current efforts in Tibet, the Peruvian Andes, Plates, and the American Southwest—and engaging private experiences, this book describes, step-by-step, how SEED-SCALE can be effectively implemented.
With contributions from leading international experts in community-based development and broadcast health, Just and Lasting Exchange offers a hopeful description of how people have made a difference in diverse communities nearly the world and a matter-of-fact, accessible handbook for those trying to improve the quality of life in underdeveloped communities the world over.
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This book has been incredible so far. Much of what the author has to say is very right and stimulating. His thoughts on how one should approach global activism and work toward exchange have been very insightful. I would definetely urge this text to anyone entering the health field or interested in environmental/global health. Thoughts and principles fit not only with broadcast health, but much of the principles toward human activism and making progress seem applicable to the world of business, management, community relations, and everyday life.
The book is very colorful with some capturing tales-not hard to read at all. I’ve taken pages of notes from it and hope to apply them soon!
Rating: 5 / 5
Taylor-Ide and Taylor have calculated a method by which social exchange may be achieved in the international and domestic arenas. Specific examples of success and failures are given as well as a means for designing and evaluating social reform programs. For those interested in achieving success without reinventing the wheel, this is a must read.
Rating: 5 / 5
As we watch news reports of the world in disarray and distress this Book offers not just salve to ease the pain of some of these small communties but also real solution as they being to restore their dignity with justice for all caught up.
The Develop SEED/Scale is one that I judge should be studied and applied in some of the rural areas, small towns in this part of Southwest Oklahoma. This method is about a reformation of attitude, self-awareness , and possibilites for growth and exchange bringing the best healthiest new life possible.
I reckon that Churches may possibly apply the develop as well as a way to restoring justice and exchange withn themselves and within the communities they serve. Revitalization is something that churches in rural arears the world over talk about I judge this develop may possibly be applied with success.
This book should have a broad readership. It may possibly help exchange the world.
Rev. Bobbie G. McGarey, Southwest Oklahoma Presbyerian Parish Pastor, Frederick, Temple, Walters, Chattanooga, and Grandfield. Oklahoma.
Rating: 5 / 5
The poor communities of the world are, unfortunately, a laboratory for many thousands of frequently failed experiments in how to improve their situation. This vital and valuable book builds on decades of matter-of-fact experience by the authors in the successful, durable transformation of poor communities. The authors’ key insights are (1) the necessity for exchange to be driven by the collaboration of the community, outside experts, and local government; (this may seem evident, but many projects fail because they handle one of these three groups as an enemy or hindrance rather than a vital element), (2) to have measurable consequences, (3) to use the power of the community to modify behavior that is an hindrance to success. This book should be read by donors as well as those directly caught up in development activities such as community leaders, government officials, and NGO workers.
Rating: 5 / 5