Empowerment on an unstable planet
Subtitle: from seeds of human energy to the scale of global change
By: Daniel C. Taylor, Carl E. Taylor, Jesse O. Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Carl E.; Taylor, Jesse O.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199842964
Subjects: Economic development; Case studies; Social action; Social change; Community action
Description: 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 percent 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What we can do with what we have, here, today; title: Connecting to the larger field of development & social change; title: If traditional development practices were effective; title: The option available to everyone : mobilizing human capacity; title: To grow empowerment : four necessary principles; title: Maintaining momentum : seven tasks; title: Staying on course : the five criteria of evidence-based decisionmaking; title: The process of going to scale : interaction among three dynamics; title: The global imperative of going to scale : examples of environmental action; title: In New York City and China; title: Confronting empire.