Development, Environment and Global Dysfunction Toward Sustainable Recovery

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Offers an alternative conceptual framework to development in which, rather than striving for unlimited economic growth, ecological and community welfare take precedent.

Contents

INTRODUCTIONTerms of DiscourseProgress and GrowthThe Consumption of NatureReconceptualizing DevelopmentThe Development of Global DysfunctionSocial Ecology Against DevelopmentThe Organization of This VolumeGLOBAL DYSFUNCTION: MULTIPLE PROBLEMS, ONE PROBLEMATICDecline in Third World DevelopmentEnvironmentally Unsustainable DevelopmentThe Endurance of Ethnic ConflictSocio-Spatial Realities of TerritoryModernizationThe Limits to State-Centered Modernization"Development" and Global DysfunctionalTHE SOCIETY-NATURE RELATIONSHIPExtremes Defining the Spectrum of Symbiotic Human-Land RelationsThe Spectrum of Symbiotic Approaches to Society-Environment RelationsHuman EcologyCulture and NatureEcological AnthropologyCultural EcologyThe Ecosystem ApproachPolitical Ecology and Regional Political EcologyBookchin's Social EcologyEthnoscience, Indigenous Knowledge, and Eco-developmentIntimacies of Society-Land UnityEthnoscience and EthnoecologyEthnoscience and GenderThe Integrity of Life-PlaceTHE ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGIONThe Rurality of DevelopmentBottom-up Regional DevelopmentTerritorial DevelopmentAgropolitan DevelopmentEcodevelopmentThe Recovery of Territorial LifeInteraction, Incorporation and Decentralization in the Endogenous Recovery Regional ApproachSpatial Parameters of the Endogenous Recovery RegionQuestions of ScaleARTICULATION OF THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY THESISThe Material Manifestations of Ethno-NationalismLessons of the Society-Environment RelationshipColonized Space and the Impediments to DevelopmentThe Social Ecology ProgramSocial Ecology as Political StruggleCONTEMPORARY KURDISTAN AS AN ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGIONDimensions of Kurdish IdentityDemography of the Kurds and KurdistanEconomic PeripheralizationRepublican TurkeyOil and the Iraqi State CenterIranian Kurdistan in NumbersENDOGENOUS RECOVERY AND A CHOICE OF FUTURE(S)Social CrisesThe Loss of Wisdom, The Loss of Self, The Loss of CommunityA Cosmopolitan WorldEnvironmental DegradationWhat We Do KnowHistory ReconstructedTechnology and Liberation from NatureRecovering RealityRecovery: Multiple TrajectoriesRecovering PlaceA Fuller View of the Parts of the WholeBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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