What is the power of a collectively imagined future?
Women in rural Zimbabwe imagine a future of prosperity and education
for their children and then they take collective action to care for the wild
grasses that guarantees their livelihood as broom-makers, and their
children’s futures. In India, "The Rivermaker" helps his village neighbors
to picture and then build a future of agricultural wealth and prosperity
through direct management of their river basin. This is the power of
a collective imagination focused on real, tangible outcomes.
Through an easy-to-read narrative style and using real examples from
Africa and Asia, this revolutionary book--part argument for the limitless
power of human imagination and part practical manual for turning visions
into reality--explains how to use a process of participatory modelling"
to structure people’s learning and understanding of the natural systems
they depend upon and how this can lead to better social and environmental
outcomes. |
