Development, Environment, and Global DysfunctionToward Sustainable Recovery

This book challenges conventional concepts of development and Modernization and surveys their contribution to "global dysfunction"-entrenched poverty, environmental degradation and socio-political unrest. Gotlieb argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION Terms of Discourse Progress and Growth The Consumption of Nature Reconceptualizing Development The Development of Global Dysfunction Social Ecology Against Development The Organization of This Volume GLOBAL DYSFUNCTION: MULTIPLE PROBLEMS, ONE PROBLEMATIC Decline in Third World Development Environmentally Unsustainable Development The Endurance of Ethnic Conflict Socio-Spatial Realities of Territory Modernization The Limits to State-Centered Modernization "Development" and Global Dysfunctional THE SOCIETY-NATURE RELATIONSHIP Extremes Defining the Spectrum of Symbiotic Human-Land Relations The Spectrum of Symbiotic Approaches to Society-Environment Relations Human Ecology Culture and Nature Ecological Anthropology Cultural Ecology The Ecosystem Approach Political Ecology and Regional Political Ecology Bookchin's Social Ecology Ethnoscience, Indigenous Knowledge, and Eco-development Intimacies of Society-Land Unity Ethnoscience and Ethnoecology Ethnoscience and Gender The Integrity of Life-Place THE ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGION The Rurality of Development Bottom-up Regional Development Territorial Development Agropolitan Development Ecodevelopment The Recovery of Territorial Life Interaction, Incorporation and Decentralization in the Endogenous Recovery Regional Approach Spatial Parameters of the Endogenous Recovery Region Questions of Scale ARTICULATION OF THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY THESIS The Material Manifestations of Ethno-Nationalism Lessons of the Society-Environment Relationship Colonized Space and the Impediments to Development The Social Ecology Program Social Ecology as Political Struggle CONTEMPORARY KURDISTAN AS AN ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY REGION Dimensions of Kurdish Identity Demography of the Kurds and Kurdistan Economic Peripheralization Republican Turkey Oil and the Iraqi State Center Iranian Kurdistan in Numbers ENDOGENOUS RECOVERY AND A CHOICE OF FUTURE(S) Social Crises The Loss of Wisdom, The Loss of Self, The Loss of Community A Cosmopolitan World Environmental Degradation What We Do Know History Reconstructed Technology and Liberation from Nature Recovering Reality Recovery: Multiple Trajectories Recovering Place A Fuller View of the Parts of the Whole BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX