Sustainability and Well-Being

The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45624-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

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.

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.