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Article: Environmental initiatives of Community-Based Development Organization: the case of The Federation of Southern Co-operatives of Alabama.(Geography, Forestry, Conservation, and Planning)(Brief Article)
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- Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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One of the major gaps in contemporary community development discourse, despite all its good intent and purposes, is the inadequate coverage of the various environmental initiatives adopted by Community Based Development Organizations (CBDOs). Most of the challenges confronting communities from neighborhood decline to sprawl matters rank in the same order of importance like the environmental problems facing these places. Since there can be no livable community without a healthy environment, there are concerns about air and water quality, wetland protection and environmental justice issues in several communities. Some of these communities have initiated numerous projects to ...