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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Facing a Harsh Climate Future with Eyes Wide Open -- The Necessity and Urgency of Emergency Speed Climate Action -- Meaning and Purpose in a Burning World -- Defiant Hope and Radical Courage -- Overview of Themes and Chapters -- 2 Beyond Denial and Despair: Honesty and Action on the Climate Change Front Line -- Tell Them About the Water: Climate Change as an Existential Risk -- Beyond Denial: The Scientific and Ethical Case for Swift and Decisive Climate Action -- Pathways to a Just and Resilient Zero-Carbon Future -- Beyond Despair: Wisdom and Resilience in the Long Emergency -- 3 Remembering Magnificence: Collective Action and the Beauty of the Earth -- Contemplating the Beauty of the Earth: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring -- The Only Limitations We Have Are Our Own Imaginations: 350.org -- We Are Not Drowning, We Are Fighting! the Pacific Climate Warriors -- We Did This Together. We Did This With Art. We Did This As Art Liberate Tate -- We Need Social Tipping Points: The German Energiewende -- The Great Society, the Moon Shot, the Civil Rights Movement of Our Generation: The Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal -- I Want You to Act Is if Your House Is on Fire. Because It Is: School Strike for Climate -- 4 Caring for Country: Indigenous and First Nations Learning About Survival, Resilience and Resistance -- If We Fail to Care for Country, It Cannot Care for Us -- If You Don't Move with the Land, the Land Will Move You -- Climate Justice at Emergency Speed -- We Are Showered Every Day with the Gifts of the Earth -- Overcoming the Windingo: Attentiveness, Gratitude, Reciprocity and Healing -- 5 Cooling the Fevered City: Reason and Hubris in Greek and Enlightenment Philosophy -- Critical Analysis and Rigorous Debate -- The Just Society and the Virtues of Moderation.

The book provides readers a set of case studies covering a diverse range of African states in order to identify the major causes of change and the movement towards democracy.

Policies and programs which aim to strength the engagement, connectedness and resilience of local communities have increasingly become a core element in public policy responses to the challenges posed by globalising social and economic relations. However, for many politicians, policy makers and citizens the conceptual framework and practical benefits of 'community strengthening' remain vague and unclear. This article aims to contribute to debates about the significance of community strengthening by providing a concise overview of the development and implementation of community strengthening initiatives by the Bracks Labor government in Victoria. Initial learning from this experience suggests that engaging and linking local communities can make a useful contribution to local social, environmental and economic outcomes as well as providing a foundation for the democratic renewal of local governance. Key factors underpinning successful community strengthening programs include strong local ownership and leadership, backed by sustained government investment in the social and physical infrastructure priorities identified as important by local communities. However, while local community strengthening strategies can lead to real improvements in community networks, infrastructure and capacity they are no substitute for the inclusive and redistributive taxation, income security, service delivery and labour market policies needed to create the conditions for sustainable reductions in poverty, inequality and social exclusion.

Wiseman reviews 'Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance' edited by Adebayo Adedeji.

'Confronting Leviathan: Mozambique since Independence' by Margaret Hall and Tom Young is reviewed.