Spirituality and Sustainable Development - Couverture rigide

Ulluwishewa, Rohana

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137382759 ISBN 13 : 9781137382757

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Synopsis

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rohana Ulluwishewa was an Associate Professor at the Sri Jayewardenepura University in Sri Lanka. After gaining a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, UK, he completed his PhD at Kyushu University, Japan. In his thirty years of academic career he has worked as Senior Lecturer at the University of Brunei, and was Visiting Fellow at Wageningen Agricultural University and Leiden University in the Netherlands, and at Leeds University, UK. He served as a consultant for many national and international development agencies and has published in numerous international journals. He was also an Honorary Research Associate at Massey University in New Zealand, where he currently lives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137382759
• ISBN 13: 9781137382757
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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