Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery

Published:
December 01, 1995 by CRC Press - 200 Pages
Author(s):
Yosef Gotlieb, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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ISBN 9781574440126
Cat# SL0128
 

Features

  • Traces historical evolution of global dysfunction from colonial period to the present.
  • Integrated analysis of the human dimensions of global change encompassing economic, political, social, and ecological dimensions.
  • 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.
  • Presentation of a global "hotspot"-the Kurds and Kurdistan-to illustrate the relationship between local and regional strife and the processes and structures inherent to global dysfunction.

    • Summary

    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.

    Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION
    Terms of Discourse
    Progress and Growth
    The Consumption of Nature
    Reconceptualizing Development
    The Development of Global Dysfunction
    Social Ecology Against Development
    The Organization of This Volume
    GLOBAL DYSFUNCTION: MULTIPLE PROBLEMS, ONE PROBLEMATIC
    Decline in Third World Development
    Environmentally Unsustainable Development
    The Endurance of Ethnic Conflict
    Socio-Spatial Realities of Territory
    Modernization
    The Limits to State-Centered Modernization
    "Development" and Global Dysfunctional
    THE SOCIETY-NATURE RELATIONSHIP
    Extremes Defining the Spectrum of Symbiotic Human-Land Relations
    The Spectrum of Symbiotic Approaches to Society-Environment Relations
    Human Ecology
    Culture and Nature
    Ecological Anthropology
    Cultural Ecology
    The Ecosystem Approach
    Political Ecology and Regional Political Ecology
    Bookchin's Social Ecology
    Ethnoscience, Indigenous Knowledge, and Eco-development
    Intimacies of Society-Land Unity
    Ethnoscience and Ethnoecology
    Ethnoscience and Gender
    The Integrity of Life-Place
    THE ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGION
    The Rurality of Development
    Bottom-up Regional Development
    Territorial Development
    Agropolitan Development
    Ecodevelopment
    The Recovery of Territorial Life
    Interaction, Incorporation and Decentralization in the Endogenous Recovery Regional Approach
    Spatial Parameters of the Endogenous Recovery Region
    Questions of Scale
    ARTICULATION OF THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY THESIS
    The Material Manifestations of Ethno-Nationalism
    Lessons of the Society-Environment Relationship
    Colonized Space and the Impediments to Development
    The Social Ecology Program
    Social Ecology as Political Struggle
    CONTEMPORARY KURDISTAN AS AN ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGION
    Dimensions of Kurdish Identity
    Demography of the Kurds and Kurdistan
    Economic Peripheralization
    Republican Turkey
    Oil and the Iraqi State Center
    Iranian Kurdistan in Numbers
    ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY AND A CHOICE OF FUTURE(S)
    Social Crises
    The Loss of Wisdom, The Loss of Self, The Loss of Community
    A Cosmopolitan World
    Environmental Degradation
    What We Do Know
    History Reconstructed
    Technology and Liberation from Nature
    Recovering Reality
    Recovery: Multiple Trajectories
    Recovering Place
    A Fuller View of the Parts of the Whole
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEX

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