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

By: Norgaard, Richard BMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203012406Subject(s): Economic development -- Environmental aspects | Economic development | Sustainable developmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Development Betrayed : The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the FutureDDC classification: 338.9 LOC classification: HD75 -- .N67 1995ebOnline resources: Click to View
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BOOK COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. THE BETRAYAL OF PROGRESS -- 2. THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY -- 3. CHANGE AS A COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- 4. A COEVOLUTIONARY ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY -- 5. THE ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS -- 6. THE PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF THE BETRAYAL -- 7. TWO MALADAPTIVE DETERMINISMS -- 8. THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS ELABORATED -- 9. A COEVOLUTIONARY COSMOLOGY -- 10. COEVOLUTIONARY LESSONS FROM THE AMAZON -- 11. THE TYRANNY OF LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM -- 12. DEMOCRATIZING KNOWLEDGE -- 13. COEVOLVING DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES -- 14. A COEVOLVING CULTURAL PATCHWORK QUILT -- 15. PROGRESS REVISIONED -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: 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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BOOK COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. THE BETRAYAL OF PROGRESS -- 2. THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY -- 3. CHANGE AS A COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- 4. A COEVOLUTIONARY ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY -- 5. THE ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS -- 6. THE PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF THE BETRAYAL -- 7. TWO MALADAPTIVE DETERMINISMS -- 8. THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS ELABORATED -- 9. A COEVOLUTIONARY COSMOLOGY -- 10. COEVOLUTIONARY LESSONS FROM THE AMAZON -- 11. THE TYRANNY OF LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM -- 12. DEMOCRATIZING KNOWLEDGE -- 13. COEVOLVING DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES -- 14. A COEVOLVING CULTURAL PATCHWORK QUILT -- 15. PROGRESS REVISIONED -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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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