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Why Stand Up? describes the ordeal of a community leader, pastor, teacher, husband and father for his activities during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He was threatened with death, and the bombing of his home as well as the church he pastored. He was fired from his teaching position and the family's residential mailbox was shot. After fifteen years of persistence and acts of courage, he was reinstated to his teaching position with bac...

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Local communities are now, more than ever before, experiencing environmental change. These changes draw attention to the discrepancy and conflict between their own views and the views of the initiators of development, such as governments and multilateral organizations. The main thesis of the book unfolds around the idea that under changing environmental conditions, sustainable development can only be achieved when communities can overcome the ...

Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment' presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing development initiatives. It introduces a theoretical framework and practical tools for analyzing such views.