Development beyond markets, and bioregionalism

Jonnalagadda Rajeswar
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Jonnalagadda Rajeswar: International Centre for Water and Energy Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Postal: International Centre for Water and Energy Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sustainable Development, 2002, vol. 10, issue 4, 206-214

Abstract: Far more than technology-oriented resource economics, development also involves ecological, institutional, cultural, traditional, intellectual, ethical and spiritual dimensions. Conventional economic indicators fail to even measure economic sustainability, let alone accurately reflect social and ecological aspects of sustainable development. Hence, it is highly essential to standardize the human and social development indicators, rather than, or in addition to, the integrated accounting framework in monetary and physical terms. Given the growth fixation in global economy, and the resulting environmental breakdown, the real battleground on which the ecological future of the planet will be decided is clearly a social one.

There has been an increasing ideological support for 'bioregionalism'. The densely forested Eastern Ghats region of Andhra Pradesh in India, with its obvious eco-political potential, offers a typical case for 'bioregionalism'. The author has conducted extensive ethno-ecological studies in the high altitude tribal area zone of the Eastern Ghats. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1002/sd.196

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