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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Development Projects and Critical Theory of Environment

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  • Jyotsna Bapat
This book proposes an original critical theory of environmental sociology based on projects relating to infrastructure development. The author examines each development project in its social, institutional and historical context and explains the outcome of each based on the actions of various individuals and groups.

The author suggests that agencies regulating environmental impacts should adopt a "reconstructive adaptive" strategy aimed at improving the physical environment so that it is better than when the project began. Similarly, development projects should ensure that people affected by these projects should also be at least as well off as before the project started - especially in instances when their livelihoods are linked to environmental resources.

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Sage Publications, May 13 2005.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/28/2005 - 22:06 Permalink

the link "Click here for ordering information" does not work

Editor's note: it works for those of us here at The CI team. If you send through your email to dheimann@comminit.com, we can try to send you a copy. Many thanks.