Peace Corps Service to Develop Community Capacity for Sustainability Planning: The Experience of Areguá, Paraguay

This paper examines an effort to develop community capacity to engage in sustainability planning as part of a Peace Corps Municipal Services Development project in Areguá, Paraguay. It sketches the context in which the initiative occurred, outlines relevant academic research on community sustainability planning, and describes the strategies adopted to assist Areguá in securing the critical mass of community capacity necessary to engage in sustainability planning. The paper concludes with an outline of continuing challenges for sustainability in Areguá and a description of means by which those concerns might be addressed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Urban and Regional Planning

Department dc:contributor.department

Public and International Affairs

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Owens, Joshua John

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Stephenson, Max O. Jr.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Hall, Ralph P.
• Dunaway, Wilma A.

• Community Sustainability Planning
• Peace Corps
• Municipal Services Development
• Capacity Building
• Participatory Research
• Areguá
• Paraguay

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Dc Identifier Other

etd-04042011-095903

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/76956