The fundamental complexity of the community approach
The community approach enables professionals from varied disciplines (police officers, doctors, social workers, community center directors, urban planners, attorneys, etc.) to deal with social challenges while making use of both their professional expertise and the community approach.
As the awareness of the necessity of partnerships grows it becomes more and more complicated to apply it. The complexity theory provides a guideline for handling that challenge successfully
This calls for the continued development of new methods of action that are based on the encouragement of self-organization by the community in order to successfully contend with social, economic and environmental challenges
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