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Transformative Sustainable Development - Participation, reflection and change (Paperback)
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Transformative Sustainable Development - Participation, reflection and change (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
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Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their
focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and
economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political
processes and relations. In this context, participation is a
genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet
the process by which participation leads to transformation is not
sufficiently understood. This book considers how the act of
participating in sustainable development projects can bring about
social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the
participants and non-participants in a broader societal context.
Drawing on ideas from social theory and applied anthropology, the
book proposes a reflexivity-based framework to analyse
participation as a type of social action underpinned by primary
experience. Development projects have a transformative effect when
participants are given the opportunity to reflect on their
experience, share the reflection with others, and open new space
for collective deliberation and change. The book applies this
framework to assess community-based participatory projects in the
Amazon, African slums and rural settlements, and disaster stricken
areas in Japan. It also outlines potential institutions of
governance to institutionalize the change by referring to current
food governance, drawing out lessons with international relevance.
This book will be of interest to students of sustainable
development, environmental policy and development studies, as well
as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.
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