Redefining Sustainable Development - Couverture souple

Middleton, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745316050 ISBN 13 : 9780745316055

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2001

Synopsis

Development and assistance in disasters is about helping people to help themselves. It is to do with facilitating 'sustainable livelihoods' and addressing the ills of social discrimination. These seem to be self-evident propositions. In fact, they are a minefield. If development workers intervene to assist in the creation of environmentally sustainable livelihoods, what judgemental codes are contained in the everyday cultural and linguistic assumptions of development practitioners? What account do they give of the environment and people's relationship to it? If livelihoods are to be economically sustainable, by which economic criteria is the judgement made? Is the objective to keep projects going until the funds run out, or, like cancer patients, to survive for five years, or to knit people into the world's trading systems? If projects are to be sustainable, they must be socially just. By whose justice do we judge? At present much development and disaster relief work derives its importance solely from providing opportunities for honing survival skills. The authors of this book examine these questions and others in detail and argue that the assumptions of the social-democratic world, including those of international NGOs, are tied to the perpetuation of capitalism. Neil Middleton and Phil O'Keefe suggest that the issue, in the face of anarchic global financial power, is to re-think the nature of class in a late capitalist world and to recognise indigenous NGOs as the new political vehicles for its struggle.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Neil Middleton was the author of Disaster and Development (Pluto, 1997), Negotiating Poverty (Pluto, 2001) and Rio Plus Ten (Pluto, 2003). He was also co-author, with Phil O'Keefe, of Redefining Sustainable Development (Pluto, 2001).

Phil O'Keefe was Professor of Economic Development and Environmental Management at Northumbria University. He is also the Director of ETC-UK and co-author with Neil Middleton of Disaster and Development (Pluto, 1997), Redefining Sustainable Development (Pluto, 2001), Rio Plus Ten (Pluto, 2003) and co-editor of Negotiating Poverty (Pluto, 2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745316050
• ISBN 13: 9780745316055
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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