Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future - Brossura

Norgaard, Richard B B.

 
9780415068628: Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0415068622 ISBN 13: 9780415068628
Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Sinossi

Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization. Instead of leading to this promised land it has brought us to the brink of environmental and cultural disaster. Why has there been this gap between modernity's aspirations and its achievements? Development Betrayed offers a powerful answer to this question.
Development with its unshakeable commitment to the idea of progress, is rooted in modernism and has been betrayed by each of its major tenets. Attempts to control nature have led to the brink of environmental catastrophe. Western technologies have proved inappropriate for the needs of the South, and governments are unable to respond effectively to the crises that have resulted.
Offering a thorough and lively critiques of the ideas behind development, Richard Norgaard also offers an alternative co-evolutionary paradigm, in which development is portrayed as a co-evolution between cultural and ecological systems. Rather than a future with all peoples merging to one best way of knowing and doing things, he envisions a future of a patchwork quilt of cultures with real possibilities for harmony.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Richard Norgaard was environmentalist David Brower’s river guide during the flooding of the Glen Canyon on the Colorado River. He earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago before going on to investigate the environmental problems of petroleum development in Alaska, hydroelectric dams in California, pesticide use in modern agriculture, and deforestation in the Amazon.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
1994
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415068622
ISBN 13 
9780415068628
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
296
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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Hamburg
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9781138138421: Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future

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ISBN 10:  1138138428 ISBN 13:  9781138138421
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015
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