Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures.

• Author: Riley-Adams, Ann Dobbs
• Position: GENERAL STUDIES - Book review

Taylor, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor. Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures describes a method for achieving success through change within communities worldwide. The focus is on improvement of health, but the authors contend that the process can achieve desirable development changes in communities of any size. Despite great advances in technology to improve health outcomes, like gene therapy and expensive pharmaceutical treatments, much of the post-colonial world struggles with very basic health problems like hunger, lack of education, and poor living conditions. Just and Lasting Change proposes a model to address these problems for millions of people that is both affordable and achievable even at a community level. This model, commonly referred to as SEED-SCALE, is a...