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Tonga timeline : appraising sixty years of multidisciplinary research in Zambia and Zimbabwe
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ISBN: 9982680056 9789982680059 9982997270 9789982997270 9789982997270 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lusaka, Zambia : Lembani Trust,

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A multitude of scholars have visited Tonga communities. They have come from different countries, worked at different times, had different disciplinary interests and theoretical agenda and published in different places. Many of these scholars have been the products of Zambian and Zimbabwean universities. The research presented in this volume gives some idea of the rich knowledge now available on the Tonga - a people remarkable for their egalitarian ethos, practice of participatory democracy and willingness to experiment with new possibilities.


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The capability of places : methods for modelling community response to intrusion and change
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ISBN: 1783713828 1849646171 9781849646178 9780745331454 0745331459 9780745331461 0745331467 9781783713820 Year: 2011 Publisher: London ; New York : Pluto Press : Palgrave Macmillan [exclusive U.S.A. distributor],

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How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.In this magisterial work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system which is more or less open or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when faced with external challenges.As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the book includes detailed accounts of the research methods used, as well as a user-friendly typology for classifying local systems, making it an invaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers.

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