9780415068628-0415068622-Development Betrayed

Development Betrayed

ISBN-13: 9780415068628
ISBN-10: 0415068622
Author: Richard B Norgaard
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 296 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415068628
ISBN-10: 0415068622
Author: Richard B Norgaard
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 296 pages

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Development Betrayed (ISBN-13: 9780415068628 and ISBN-10: 0415068622), written by authors Richard B Norgaard, was published by Routledge in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Environmental Economics (Economics, Sustainable Development, Engineering, Technology, Social Sciences, Specific Topics, Politics & Government) books. You can easily purchase or rent Development Betrayed (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Environmental Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.4.

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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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