Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures / Edition 2

by Daniel C. Taylor, Carl E. Taylor

Overview

The classic guide to transforming developing communities sustainably—and for the better.

How 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 Just and Lasting Change, 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.

The 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.

Just and Lasting Change 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.

The 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
Five completely new chapters
Thirteen years of scholarship and global evidence
Contributions from leading international experts in community-based development and public health

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421419473
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2016
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Daniel C. Taylor is the executive director of Future Generations, a community-based conservation and development organization, and the president of Future Generations Graduate School.

Carl E. Taylor (1916–2009) was a professor and the founding chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as a UNICEF representative for China and the country director for Future Generations Afghanistan.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Glossary: The SEED-SCALE Process
Introduction
Part I: The Claim: A Just and Lasting Future Is Possible
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Our Maturing Understanding of Community Change
Chapter 3. Making a Large and Lasting Impact
Chapter 4. Synopsis of SEED-SCALE
Chapter 5. Assuring Accountability through Better Paperwork
Chapter 6. A Crisis Can Become an Opportunity
Part II: Historical Demonstrations
Chapter 7. The World's First Example of Intentional, Community-Based Development: Ding Xian, China
Chapter 8. Abraham Lincoln: Setting America's Modernization in Motion
Chapter 9. An Evolving Balance between People and Nature: The Adirondacks, New York
Chapter 10. Development without Wealth: Kerala, India
Part III: Evidence from the Community Level
Chapter 11. A Better Pattern for Cities: Curitiba, Brazil
Chapter 12. The Role of Conceptual and Cultural Breakthroughs: Narangwal, India
Chapter 13. Out of the Shadows: Women in Afghanistan
Chapter 14. Evolution of a World Training Center: Jamkhed, India
Chapter 15. Addiction as a Barrier to Development: Gadchiroli, India
Chapter 16. The Green Bay Packers: Community-Owned Energy
Part IV: Large-Scale Applications
Chapter 17. Scaling Up Tobacco Control: Creating Authority by International Convention
Chapter 18. Urban Agriculture: A Powerful Engine for Sustainable Cities
Chapter 19. Communities and Government Learning to Work Together: CLAS in Peru
Chapter 20. Integrating Conservation with Development: Tibet, China
Chapter 21. Going to Scale with Health Care: China's Model Counties
Chapter 22. A University's Actions in Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 23. A Promising Start Derailed: Kakamega, Kenya
Conclusion: Patterns to Own Our Futures
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. A Handbook on SEED: Initiating Growth
Appendix B. A Handbook on SCALE: Growth in Improvement and Participation
Notes
Authors and Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Flora MacDonald

This book describes in detail a concept of community development that is not only exciting but eminently practical and capable of achieving positive results. The SEED-SCALE model for international development presented in Just and Lasting Change is based on the need for local consensus and cooperation, recognizing that when community residents, government officials, and outside experts work together, they can create the proper environment for sustainable development. Applicable to any community where growth has been lagging, whether in the developing or the developed world, SEED-SCALE has been repeatedly tested and proven successful. In spelling out so succinctly the manner in which community development can be stimulated through the SEED-SCALE concept, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on sustainable development.

— Flora MacDonald, former Canadian Foreign Minister

Halfdan Mahler

This book is a 'must-read' for those seeking to carry out or to understand true change in health equity and health improvement. This book shows us the real potential of honest partnerships between communities, governments, and technical experts. With an unmatched global reach and breadth of examples, from Appalachia to the Tibetan high plateau, the Taylors have laid out for the reader both the complexity and the underlying simplicity of principle that enables us to approach health from a systems perspective. Nurturing these resonant and self-reinforcing systems, rather than filling out the static prescriptions of past top-down development efforts, can put us on the path to a healthy world. Many of us with experience in development are scared of the 'do-gooder' syndrome which frequently lacks a sustainability and growth component. Just and Lasting Change, however, makes a unique contribution to the field by detailing how a continuous empowerment process of skill and will can realize the potential for cumulative growth in development programs.

— Halfdan Mahler, Director General Emeritus, World Health Organization

W. Henry Mosley

I know of no one else in the world who has the breadth and depth of experience in international development work as Carl Taylor. In Just and Lasting Change, he and Daniel Taylor-Ide offer a perceptive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of current development efforts and, in their SEED-SCALE model, a practical guide for those engaged in this kind of work today and a highly relevant approach to these problems in this age of globalization.

— W. Henry Mosley, M.D., M.P.H., The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Editorial Reviews

This is a fine resource for individuals teaching or practicing in the fields of international health, public health, health policy, or medical education, as well as individuals in social work and education. The authors’ informative treatise introduces practitioners, educators, and policy makers to the fundamentals of promoting community-centered and cost-effective social change. Recommended.
—Choice

Just and Lasting Change is a valuable resource for anyone interested in international health, underdevelopment, and community empowerment.
—Journal of Global South Studies

A 'must-read' for those seeking to carry out or to understand true change in health equity and health improvement. Just and Lasting Change makes a unique contribution to the field by detailing how a continuous empowerment process of skill and will can realize the potential for cumulative growth in development programs.
—Halfdan Mahler, Director General Emeritus, World Health Organization

This book is both a description and a prescription: a description of some such communities, and the process through which they achieved enviable health levels, as well as a prescription for other societies to follow suit . . . This is the one book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone interested in underdevelopment and health.
—V. Raman Kutty, International Journal of Epidemiology

This book describes in detail a concept of community development that is not only exciting but eminently practical and capable of achieving positive results. The SEED-SCALE model for international development presented in Just and Lasting Change is based on the need for local consensus and cooperation, recognizing that when community residents, government officials, and outside experts work together, they can create the proper environment for sustainable development. Applicable to any community where growth has been lagging, whether in the developing or the developed world, SEED-SCALE has been repeatedly tested and proven successful. In spelling out so succinctly the manner in which community development can be stimulated through the SEED-SCALE concept, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on sustainable development.
—Flora MacDonald, former Canadian Foreign Minister

From the Publisher

This book describes in detail a concept of community development that is not only exciting but eminently practical and capable of achieving positive results. The SEED-SCALE model for international development presented in Just and Lasting Change is based on the need for local consensus and cooperation, recognizing that when community residents, government officials, and outside experts work together, they can create the proper environment for sustainable development. Applicable to any community where growth has been lagging, whether in the developing or the developed world, SEED-SCALE has been repeatedly tested and proven successful. In spelling out so succinctly the manner in which community development can be stimulated through the SEED-SCALE concept, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on sustainable development.

Flora MacDonald

This book is both a description and a prescription: a description of some such communities, and the process through which they achieved enviable health levels, as well as a prescription for other societies to follow suit . . . This is the one book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone interested in underdevelopment and health.

International Journal of Epidemiology - V. Raman Kutty

Just and Lasting Change is a valuable resource for anyone interested in international health, underdevelopment, and community empowerment.

Journal of Global South Studies

This is a fine resource for individuals teaching or practicing in the fields of international health, public health, health policy, or medical education, as well as individuals in social work and education. The authors’ informative treatise introduces practitioners, educators, and policy makers to the fundamentals of promoting community-centered and cost-effective social change. Recommended.

Choice

A 'must-read' for those seeking to carry out or to understand true change in health equity and health improvement. Just and Lasting Change makes a unique contribution to the field by detailing how a continuous empowerment process of skill and will can realize the potential for cumulative growth in development programs.

Halfdan Mahler

"Just and Lasting Change is a valuable resource for anyone interested in international health, underdevelopment, and community empowerment."

JournalofGlobalSouthStudies

I know of no one else in the world who has the breadth and depth of experience in international development work as Carl Taylor. In Just and Lasting Change,he and Daniel Taylor-Ide offer a perceptive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of current development efforts and,in their SEED-SCALE model,a practical guide for those engaged in this kind of work today and a highly relevant approach to these problems in this age of globalization.

W. Henry Mosley

This book is a 'must-read' for those seeking to carry out or to understand true change in health equity and health improvement. This book shows us the real potential of honest partnerships between communities,governments,and technical experts. With an unmatched global reach and breadth of examples,from Appalachia to the Tibetan high plateau,the Taylors have laid out for the reader both the complexity and the underlying simplicity of principle that enables us to approach health from a systems perspective. Nurturing these resonant and self-reinforcing systems,rather than filling out the static prescriptions of past top-down development efforts,can put us on the path to a healthy world. With its rich and varied detail of experience,this is the Whole Earth Catalogue of global health.

Nils Daulaire

The authors and collaborators present a conceptual model of sustainable development first outlined in (New York: UNICEF, 1995). Calling their model SEED-SCALE (Self-Evaluation for Effective Decisionmaking and Systems for Communication to Adapt Learning and Expand), they suggest that it is applicable regardless of culture or geography. They cite historical examples in Kerala, India; Ding Xian, China; and other places. They demonstrate how the process has worked in a number of communities and examine applicability to large-scale projects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

This book is both a description and a prescription: a description of some such communities, and the process through which they achieved enviable health levels, as well as a prescription for other societies to follow suit... This is the one book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone interested in underdevelopment and health.

— V. Raman Kutty

International Journal of Epidemiology