Building a Resilient Tomorrow
Building a Resilient Tomorrow

Author: Alice C. Hill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 019090934X

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Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.

Building Communities from the Inside Out
Building Communities from the Inside Out

Author: John P. Kretzmann

Publisher: ACTA Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journies down the path of asset-based development.

Building Communities, Together
Building Communities, Together

Author: United States Department Of Agriculture

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781396715198

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Excerpt from Building Communities, Together: Guidebook for Community-Based Strategic Planning for Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities A key part of the initiative is its emphasis on community strategic planning. The planning pro cess in the initiative is a catalyst that can help a community create a better tomorrow. Strategic planning creates ari Opportunity to assess where a community is, where it is now going, and where it would prefer to be in the future. Its focus is on aspi rations, strengths and capacities, not just on prob lems and distress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Authors in the Classroom
Authors in the Classroom

Author: Alma Flor Ada

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Explores the contradictions between what is expected of teachers and the education and support they have received, and provides teachers with advice on how to teach writing and generate their students' interest in writing.

Tomorrow’s Communities
Tomorrow’s Communities

Author: Henry Tam

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1447361121

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It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities should be given a role in tackling challenges exacerbated by global crises. Written by a team of leading experts with in-depth knowledge and on-the-ground experience, this book sets out why and how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. This book critically explores examples from around the world of how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face, and provides an invaluable guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.