Reflections on Working with Communities and Community-Based Projects in Bangladesh
Community-based studies are a central feature of current development and clim ate change research and planning in developing countries. In this chapter we reflect upon our engagement with place-based communities over two decades in rural Bangladesh. We draw upon several encounters with local com...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/135/chp%253A10.1007%252F978-981-4585-11-8_13.pdf?auth66=1425599976_560d7bb3741e2a164bc5b7f919bb6920&ext=.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62629 |
| Summary: | Community-based studies are a central feature of current development and clim ate change research and planning in developing countries. In this chapter we reflect upon our engagement with place-based communities over two decades in rural Bangladesh. We draw upon several encounters with local communities to illustrate the relationship between communities of practice and of place; com- plexities of putting what local people say and do at the centre of project work; the relationship of policy to practice; the difficulties of balancing immediate gains with longer term sustainability; and the need to locate place-based communities within wider ecological, economic and political networks of activity and influence to ensure more effective planning. |
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