Edging Forward (eBook)

Achieving Sustainable Community Development

Ann Dale (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
186 Seiten
Fernweh Press (Verlag)
978-1-7750904-0-3 (ISBN)

Infos

As Canadians, we are faced with a choice: do we continue to allow communities to merely survive or can we help them to thrive? Dr. Ann Dale has dedicated her life to studying Canadian communities and how they can transition towards more sustainable development paths. Since publishing her book At the Edge over fifteen years ago, her new book chronicles the various options that Canadians have to step back and actively implement sustainable community development practices. But what factors are stopping Canadian communities? How can a single ';story' dominate our development? What are the barriers and drivers and how do we reconcile competing agendas, and vested interests against changing the single story? Once again, Dr. Dale draws upon both the personal and the professional to discuss her own journey in reconciliation, reconnection and the power of relationships and ultimately love and compassion as one of the most important pathways for transforming human development. With 10-years of new research backed by many social innovations and progress in implementing sustainable community development, Dr. Dale concludes that there is hope but there is much more to do. As a country, we're only edging forward when we need to be leaping forward.

Inhalt

Introduction / 10 Chapter One / 16The Loss of the Dragons: Unknown Unknowns Chapter Two / 24Going Down the Wrong Rabbit Hole: The Climate Imperative Chapter Three / 41Beauty and the Beast: The Biodiversity Imperative Chapter Four / 53Three Little Pigs: The Personal Imperative Chapter Five / 71Charlotte’s Web Sustainable: Community Development Chapter Six / 86Three Trolls Under the Bridge: Barriers to Change Chapter Seven / 100
The Knights of the Round Table: Moving from Government to Governance Chapter Eight / 115
The Wizard of Oz: Reconciliation, (Re)Connection, and Regeneration  Epilogue / 132Reflections: Once Upon a Time Endnotes / 139 Acknowledgements / 151 About the Author / 153 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Canadian communities • community development • Environment • Reconciliation • relationships • Social Innovation • sustainable development
• ISBN-10: 1-7750904-0-X / 177509040X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7750904-0-3 / 9781775090403