{"product_id":"just-and-lasting-change-daniel-c-taylor-9781421419473","title":"Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic guide to transforming developing communities sustainably--and for the better.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid, cost-effective, and locally appropriate ways? In \u003ci\u003eJust and Lasting Change\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor present readers with an innovative, proven, and site-specific guide to helping communities thrive through growing their own change in partnership with experts, donors, and government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Taylors built their decades-long careers by partnering with key thinkers to combat inequity, environmental degradation, and globalization. The SEED-SCALE model they describe enables people (wherever they might live) to transform their communities by analyzing their local context in relation to the global, taking appropriate actions based on their priorities and resources, and assessing what succeeding actions may be needed to continue making progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust and Lasting Change\u003c\/i\u003e describes, step by step, how the SEED-SCALE model can be effectively implemented. Drawing from a variety of engaging personal experiences and case studies, this wide-ranging book describes early attempts to promote social development a century ago, as well as current efforts in South America, Africa, and Asia. It also reveals how community-based social change unfolded in America, spurred at different points by Abraham Lincoln's leadership style and the Green Bay Packers's ownership model, and presents readers with thematic global examples from the anti-smoking campaign, Green Revolution, Child Survival Revolution, and urban agriculture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of this pathbreaking handbook offers a hopeful description of how people have improved the quality of life in diverse communities around the world and is fully revised and updated with\u003cbr\u003e Five completely new chapters \u003cbr\u003e Thirteen years of scholarship and global evidence\u003cbr\u003e Contributions from leading international experts in community-based development and public health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel C. Taylor, Carl E. Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421419475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421419473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016","brand":"Daniel C. Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072941519103,"sku":"9781421419473","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_426b0b76-7b00-4a89-af99-3e0056b991a7.jpg?v=1685444853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-and-lasting-change-daniel-c-taylor-9781421419473","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}