Development, Environment, and Global Dysfunction. Toward Sustainable Recovery - Hardcover

Gotlieb, Yosef

 
9781574440126: Development, Environment, and Global Dysfunction. Toward Sustainable Recovery
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1574440128 ISBN 13: 9781574440126
Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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. -- From the Publisher

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1574440128
ISBN 13 
9781574440126
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
200