Natasha Chassagne

Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from Ecuador

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how communities understand and practice Buen Vivir, an alternative to the current model of sustainable development. The book will be of interest to policymakers, development professionals, activists, students and scholars of sustainability and development seeking grassroots social and environmental change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000257939
• Artikelnr.: 60349690

Autorenporträt

Natasha Chassagne is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Social Impact, Australia. Natasha's doctoral research looked at the viability of Buen Vivir as an alternative to Sustainable Development. Natasha is a political scientist by training in international law and international relations, specialising in human rights and environmental law. She has worked as a Sustainability Consultant, and writes and researches on sustainability, wellbeing, and climate change issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 1. The Brief History of Development and Sustainable
Development 2. Towards an Alternative to Development: The Growing
Legitimacy of Post-Development 3. Sustaining the 'Good Life': Buen Vivir as
an Alternative to Sustainable Development Part 2 4. Understandings of Buen
Vivir in Ecuador's Cotacachi Canton 5. Living Well and Buen Vivir: Practice
vs. Policy? 6. Challenging the Good Life 7. Rethinking Sustainability:
Making the Global Align with the Local 8. Implementing Buen Vivir: The
Practical Pathway to Transformation 9. New Horizons for Socio-Eco
Wellbeing: Concluding Remarks