Community capacity and resilience in Latin America through the community capitals lens / Paul Lachapelle, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes and Cornelia Butler Flora -- Promoting development and conservation practice in Latin America and the Caribbean through CATIE masters program / Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Alejandro C. Imbach, and Felicia Ramirez -- Building local strategies for the adaptation to climate change of farming livelihoods : review of a participatory approach applied in Mesoamerica / Claudia Bouroncle, Alejandro C. Imbach, Andrea Zamora, Omaira Uruena, and Alejandra Boni Aristizabal -- Bioculturality and transdisciplinarity : two paths for reaching sustainability through community capacity building in Mexico / Enrique Hipolito Romero and Jose Maria Ramos Prado -- Bonds of faith for community change : new actors in rural community development in El Salvador / James Huff -- Evaluation on a shoestring : one international development organization's experience measuring impact in Central America / Charlie French and Ricardo Romero-Perezgrovas -- Using community capitals to adapt to environmental challenges in rural Uruguay / Diego Thompson -- Using the community capitals framework to understand the potential for inclusive innovation : three case studies of an energy project in Peru / Ursula Harman, Helen Ross and Jim Cavaye -- Youth development in northern Nicaragua : an empowerment perspective / Amy E. Boren Alpizar and Carla Andrea Millares Forno -- Reflection on building sustainable resilience solutions to achieve SDG 2 in Colombia / Deborah Hines and Rondro Ranaivo.
Summary:
"Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. Resiliency in a community sense is associated with an ability to address stress and respond to shock while obtaining participatory engagement in community assessment, planning and outcome. Although the political contexts for community development have changed dramatically in a number of Latin American countries in recent years, there are growing opportunities and examples of communities working together to address common problems and improve collective quality of life. This book links scholarship that highlights community development praxis using new frameworks to understand the potential for community capacity and resiliency. By rejecting old linear models of development, based on technology transfer and diffusion of technology, many communities in Latin America have built capacity of their capital assets to become more resilient and adapt positively to change. This book is an essential resource for academics and practitioners of rural development, demonstrating that there is much we can learn from the skills of self-diagnosis and building on existing assets to enhance community capitals"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.