A Dynamic Balance: Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development (Sustainability and the Environment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774811447 ISBN 13: 9780774811446

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -social capital and sustainable development -within the overall context of local community development. Since the social dimension of sustainable development is the least understood of what are often viewed as its three imperatives (the other two being the ecological and economic), the book illuminates the importance of understanding this dimension and how it can be mobilized at the community level. This is shown by applied research in a number of small, predominantly rural Australian and Canadian communities.Given the number of small communities in both countries struggling to diversify from single-resource economies in a context of increasing globalization, this topic touches on several critical public policy issues. The contributors argue that the key strategies for communities to respond to the issues they are facing must be embedded in the dialectics of sustainable development. Unless this critical imperative is met, single-resource economy communities will continue to face ecological, social, and economic collapse.

Biografía del autor:

Ann Dale is a professor in the Science, Technology,and Environment Division at Royal Roads University. She is a TrudeauFellow, and a Canada Research Chair in Sustainable CommunityDevelopment. Jenny Onyx is the director of the Centrefor Australian Community Organisation and Management at the Universityof Technology in Sydney.

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• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0774811447
• ISBN 13: 9780774811446
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Dale Ann, Onyx Jenny