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Empowerment on an unstable planet : from seeds of human energy to the scale of global change / Daniel C. Taylor, Carl E. Taylor, Jesse O. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Daniel C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- Social change--Case studies.
- Economic development--Case studies.
- Economic development.
- Political participation.
- Social action.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 liv
- Contents:
- What we can do with what we have, here, today
- Connecting to the larger field of development & social change
- If traditional development practices were effective
- The option available to everyone : mobilizing human capacity
- To grow empowerment : four necessary principles
- Maintaining momentum : seven tasks
- Staying on course : the five criteria of evidence-based decisionmaking
- The process of going to scale : interaction among three dynamics
- The global imperative of going to scale : examples of environmental action
- In New York City and China
- Confronting empire.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-992431-7
- 0-19-025844-6
- 1-283-42758-3
- 9786613427588
- 0-19-984297-3
- OCLC:
- 769344044
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