Posts Tagged Social
Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement
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*Continues the story of the Sarvodaya Movement begun in Joanna Macy’s Dharma and Development
*Up-to-date information stems from ten years of scholarly and field research
In one of the world’s most inspirational grassroots-development stories, Buddhism at Work outlines the vision and evolution of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, as its members have sought to engage and awaken society with Buddhist and Gandhian ideals.
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Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement
Tags: Buddhism, buddhism at work, buddhist, Community, Development, dharma, Empowerment, gandhian, grassroots development, joanna macy, Movement, product description, Sarvodaya, sarvodaya movement, sarvodaya shramadana movement, Social, social empowerment, WorkRelated posts
A Dynamic Balance: Social Capital And Sustainable Community Development
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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 mobiliz… More >>
A Dynamic Balance: Social Capital And Sustainable Community Development
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Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation
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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the… More >>
Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation
Tags: basic human needs, capabilities, City, Community, decades, Development, initiatives, Innovation, Neighbourhoods, population groups, regeneration, Save, Social, social innovation, social interactionRelated posts