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Community Development Journal 35:255-263 (2000)
© 2000 Community Development Journal and Oxford University Press

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Whatever the weather: a tropical dimension to community development theory

Jan Richardson0

0 Northern Territory University, Australia

Community development practitioners are required to work in diverse environments, and the climate and culture in which they work shape their practice. The influence of climate and culture on practitioners is, however, rarely theorized in community development literature. Recently, a study conducted into cross-cultural community development work in the tropical Kimberley region of northwest Australia found that climate and culture were key contextual issues for practice. A model derived from this remote tropical region shows how these variables add a climatic dimension to theory. This paper argues that trainers, practitioners and planners will prepare and act in unique ways when they include the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions and influences in the checklist for worker survival and long-term effectiveness.


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