Development, Environment, and Global Dysfunctiontoward Sustainable Recovery

By Yosef Gotlieb

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574440128
• ISBN13: 9781574440126
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"