Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America

Paul R. Lachapelle, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Cornelia Butler Flora

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781351619547
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

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.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributing Authors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America through the Community Capitals Lens
• 2 Promoting Development and Conservation Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean through the CATIE Master’s Program
• 3 Building Local Strategies for the Adaptation to Climate Change of Farming Livelihoods: Review of a Participatory Approach Applied in Mesoamerica
• 4 Bioculturality and Transdisciplinarity: Two Paths for Reaching Sustainability Through Community Capacity Building in Mexico
• 5 Bonds of Faith for Community Change: New Actors in Rural Community Development in El Salvador
• 6 Evaluation on a Shoestring: One International Development Organization’s Experience Measuring Impact in Central America
• 7 Using Community Capitals to Adapt to Environmental Challenges in Rural Uruguay
• 8 Using the Community Capital Framework to Understand the Potential for Inclusive Innovation: Three Case Studies of an Energy Project in Peru
• 9 Youth Development in Northern Nicaragua: An Empowerment Perspective
• 10 Reflection on Building Sustainable Resilience Solutions to Achieve SDG 2 in Colombia
• Index