Importance of

Understanding Community
Dynamics and Community
Action
 Community Dynamics

 is the change and development

involved in a community that
includes all forms of living
organism.
 Community Action

 Is putting communities as the

center of the services development
and services delivery. This
initiative aims to cater the primary
needs of the communities before
implementing it.
 In such way, **community action**
will help the community dynamics
or the degree of improvement of
the community.
 It is important to understand these
two because this will propel the
success and stability of the
communities. They go hand in hand
and are proportionally related.
Social Science Perspectives
Human Impacts on the Environment

 Human society has a very large

impact on the natural environment.
 We are changing the makeup of the
Earth’s surface and atmosphere,
depleting a variety of natural
resources, changing the global
climate, and causing many other
species to go extinct.
 Natural science can help us
understand the nature of these
environmental impacts but social
science is needed to understand
why and how human society is
causing them.
Environmental Impacts on
Humanity
 Just as human society impact the
environment, so, too, does the
environmental impact humanity.
Indeed, the environment has
played a large role in the contours
of human society throughout its
entire history.
 Today, as the environment
changes from human activity,
these environmental changes are
coming back around impact
humanity, often quite profoundly.
Understanding how the
environment impact society
requires social science.
Environmental Policy
 Given the importance on the
impacts of humanity on the
environment and the environment
on humanity, society’s policies
toward the environment are also
important.
 This includes our policies on how
we impact the environment and
policies on how we respond
environmental conditions and
changes in these conditions.
 The word policy here should be
interpreted broadly to include the
policies of government but also the
policies of businesses, schools,
non-profit organization, and even
households and individual people.
What is Institutional Perspective
 1.Legitimate arrangements that
govern economics and social
business and human behavior in a
particular society.

 2.Approach that highlights the

critical importance of the
environment of new social ventures.
Who and What is ‘Civil Society’
 Refers to a wide array of
organizations community groups,
non-governmental organizations,
labour unions, indigenous groups,
charitable organizations,
faithbased organization,
professional associations, and
foundations.
 Civil society sometimes called the
“third sector” (after government and
commerce) has the power influence
the actions o elected policy- makers
and businesses. But the nature of
civil society- what it is and what it
does- is evolving, in response to both
technological development and more
nuanced changes within societies.
Local and Grassroots Level