UID:
edocfu_9959235185002883
Format:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-91563-2
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1-138-13842-8
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1-134-91564-0
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1-280-43555-0
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9786610435555
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0-203-01240-2
Content:
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 h
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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14. A COEVOLVING CULTURAL PATCHWORK QUILT15. PROGRESS REVISIONED; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC POSTSCRIPT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-06861-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-06862-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203012406
