Bandarage Sustainability and Well-Being

The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-30899-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 125 Seiten, eBook

Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation. She presents an incisive social science analysis and an alternative philosophical perspective on the needed transition from a worldview of domination to one of partnership.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bandarage, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Environment, Society and Economy 2. Environmental, Social and Economic Collapse 3. Evolution of the Domination Paradigm 4. Ecological and Social Justice Movements 5. Ethical Path to Sustainability and Wellbeing

Über Autor(innen)

Asoka Bandarage is author of Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-1886 ; Women, Population and Global Crisis: A Political-Economic Analysis ; The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Political Economy and many other publications. She has taught at Brandeis, Mount Holyoke, Georgetown and other universities across the US.