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Health Promotion International, Vol. 17, No. 3, 285-286, September 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

RESOURCE REVIEW

Partners in Planning. Information, Participation and Empowerment

Susan B. Rifkin and Pat Pridmore, Macmillan Education Ltd, London, 2001

Marcus Longley, Associate Director and Senior Fellow1

1 Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care University of Glamorgan Pontypridd CF37 1DL
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The central thesis of this book is succinctly expressed (more than once) in this aphorism: ‘Information is KNOWLEDGE, knowledge is POWER, sharing knowledge is EMPOWERMENT’. This rather neatly captures the great strengths of the book, and also its limitations.

First, the strengths. As a handbook for people wanting to extend their repertoire of techniques in participatory planning—or wanting to get involved for the first time—one could hardly wish for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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