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