1st Edition
Development Betrayed The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future
By Richard B Norgaard
Copyright 1994
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 The Betrayal Of Progress 2 The Challenge Of Sustainability 3 Change As A Coevolutionary Process 4 A Coevolutionary Environmental History 5 The Illusions Of Progress 6 The Philosophical Roots Of The Betrayal 7 Two Maladaptive Determinisms 8 The Coevolutionary Process Elaborated 9 A Coevolutionary Cosmology 10 Coevolutionary Lessons From The Amazon 11 The Tyranny Of Liberal Individualism 12 Democratizing Knowledge 13 Coevolving Discursive Communities 14 A Coevolving Cultural Patchwork Quilt 15 Progress Revisioned
Biography
Richard Norgaard was environmentalist David Brower’s river guide during the flooding of the Glen Canyon on the Colorado River. He earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago before going on to investigate the environmental problems of petroleum development in Alaska, hydroelectric dams in California, pesticide use in modern agriculture, and deforestation in the Amazon.
