Kei Otsuki

Transformative Sustainable Development

Participation, reflection and change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Does participation in development projects truly facilitate social transformation gearing towards sustainable development? How do we know if the transformation is fair and just for the participants? This book explores these questions by drawing on ideas from social theory, anthropology, political ecology, and case studies from around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415640794
• ISBN-10: 0415640792
• Artikelnr.: 36268168

Autorenporträt

Kei Otsuki is a sociologist and an assistant professor at Utrecht University, in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Towards Agentive Participation 2. Community
Based Natural Resource Management in the Brazilian Amazon 3. Community
Led Sanitation in Nairobi Slums 4. Community Resilience in a Semi
Arid Rural Settlement in Ghana 5. Community and Citizenship Building in Post
Triple Disaster Japan 6. Agentive Participation to Transform Food Governance 7. Conclusions