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Product Description: A buzzword of the new millennium, social capital is said to be the key element in building urban and rural communities. An enormous resource generated from "people power," it is defined as the capacity of humans to work cooperatively through everyday interactions with family, friends, coworkers, and community organizations to solve problems...read more

Product Description: A Dynamic Balance aims to illustrate the links between two normally disparate literatures -- social capital and sustainable development -- within the overall context of local community development. Since the social dimension of sustainable development is the least understood of what are often viewed as its three imperatives (the other two being the ecological and economic), the book illuminates the importance of understanding this dimension and how it can be mobilized at the community level...read more

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Product Description: "Emotion and Gender should be welcomed very warmly: it is one of the first more elaborate works in this domain. I find Emotion and Gender an inspiring book, and I would recommend it to all scholars in this domain. It is a collection of many interesting ideas, which beg for a more detailed elaboration and more systematic empirical research...read more