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Ideas for Development (Paperback, New)
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* From one of the 'gurus' of development and author of the best
selling Participatory Workshops* Chock-full of provocative and
actionable ideas drawn from four decades of development work and
written in Robert Chambers' infectious and highly readable style
Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by
power, greed, ignorance, self-deception, and denial, with
spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate
change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt, and corporate
exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions
almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert
Chambers, one of the 'glass is half full' optimists of
international development, suggests that the problems can be solved
and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action,
develop solutions, and remake our world as it can and should be.
Chambers peels apart and analyzes aspects of development that have
been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an
earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a
contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful
conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book
draws on experiences from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, covering
topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility,
continuity, and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce
resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past,
present, and future; scaling up; behavior and attitudes;
responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st
century.
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