Building Community (eBook)

Twelve Principles for a Healthy Future

James S. Gruber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
352 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-77142-321-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Building Community is a practical guide for local leaders working to build equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities. Featuring a chapter covering each of 12 Guiding Principles common to thriving communities, the book includes rich case studies and leaderships tools.

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An easy-to-use guide for local leaders working to engage their community in growing a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable future Building Community is the easy-to-use guide that distills the success of healthy thriving communities from around the world into twelve universally applicable principles that transcend cultures and locations. Exploring how community building can be approached by local citizens and their local leaders, Building Community features: A chapter on each of the 12 Guiding Principles, based on research in 27 countries Over 30 knowledgeable contributing author-practitioners Critical practical leadership tools Notes from the field - with practical dos and don'ts A wealth of 25 case studies of communities that have learned to thrive, including towns and villages, inner-city neighborhoods, Indigenous groups, nonprofits, women's empowerment groups, and a school, business, and faith community. Building Community is essential reading for community leaders, activists, planners, policy makers, and students looking to help their communities thrive. Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve environmental and social problems, we can learn and apply the successes of thriving communities to protect the environment, enhance local livelihood, and grow social vitality.

Autor

lt;p> James S. Gruber, PhD, PE , is Director of the PhD Program in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England, a member of the IUCN Council for Environmental Economic and Social Policy, and a recent delegate to the UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. He has consulted for governments and NGOs in the US, Eastern Europe, South America, and Africa on environmental issues and local governance, focusing on citizen empowerment in developing and implementing policy and programs. His work over the past three decades as a consultant, solar and environmental engineer, town manager, and university professor has had a strong focus on local citizen engagement and facilitating positive adaptive change in local communities. He resides in Alstead, New Hampshire. https://howcommunitiesthrive.weebly.com/

Inhalt

Foreword
Introduction - A Journey of Discovery

Chapter 1: Our Communities, Their Challenges, and Guiding Principles
Chapter 2: Principle A – Involve Everyone
Chapter 3: Principle B – Work Together
Chapter 4: Principle C – Protect Resources and Promote Fairness
Chapter 5: Principle D – Be Transparent
Chapter 6: Principle E – Support Research
Chapter 7: Principle F – Empower People
Chapter 8: Principle G – Earn Trust
Chapter 9: Principle H – Embrace Feedback
Chapter 10: Principle I – Listen and Adapt
Chapter 11: Principle J – Share Power
Chapter 12: Principle K – Strengthen the Foundation
Chapter 13: Principle L – Resolve Conflict
Chapter 14: A Toolbox of Leadership Strategies

Endnotes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 100 B&W charts, tables, graphs, maps, photographs and graphics
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Administration • building a community • building community • Building Healthy Communities • Built Environment • Capital • Cities • Citizens • City • civil • Community • Community Capital • community engagement • community leaders • Community leadership • Council • Crisis • Design • Development • Ecological • economic • Empowering • empowering community • Empowerment • Engagement • Engineering • faculty • fostering • Framework • Global • growth • Guidebook • guidebook for starting • guidebook for starting a community • Habitat for Humanity • Healthy • Housing • Leaders • Leadership • leadership skills • Local • Local Citizens • Local Communities • Local Conservation • neighborhood • Planning • pleasure activism • Politics • Principles • principles for fostering community • principles fostering • regional • Social • Social capital • strengthen • strengthen community • strong • strong communities • Sustaianable/Sustainability • sustainability • Sustainable • thriving in small groups • thriving small groups • Towns • Urban
• ISBN-10: 1-77142-321-8 / 1771423218
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77142-321-2 / 9781771423212