Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery
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Challenging conventional concepts of development and modernization, while surveying their contribution to "global dysfunction," the author argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction. Key features included tracing evolution of global dysfunction from colonial period to present, integrating analysis of human dimensions of global change, extensive literature review relating to Third World development, human ecology, political economy, and geography, systematic treatment of World Bank and related data on socioeconomic and environmental welfare.
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This book challenges conventional concepts of development and Modernization and surveys their contribution to "global dysfunction"-entrenched poverty, environmental degradation and socio-political unrest. Gotlieb argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction.
Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery,Yosef Gotlieb,CRC,1574440128,Business / Economics / Finance,Ecology,Environmental Science,General,Human Ecology,Life Sciences - Ecology,Nature/Ecology,Social ecology,Sustainable development,Development studies,Economics,Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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