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Buen Vivir As an Alternative to Sustainable Development Lessons from Ecuador.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chassagne, Natasha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Colección:Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Latin America at a crossroads
  • Ecuador and Buen Vivir
  • Reading this book
  • References
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1 A brief history of development and Sustainable Development
  • Underdevelopment and the myth of progress
  • The failure of development and the path to alternatives
  • Sustaining growth: The emergence of Sustainable Development, critiques, and limits
  • The unsustainability of Sustainable Development: Why we need an "alternative to development"
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Towards an alternative to development: The growing legitimacy of post-development
  • Post-development in Latin America
  • In the search for "alternatives to development"
  • Ending the age of extractivism
  • "A Latin America paradox": A very brief history of extractivism in Latin America
  • The Birth of neoextractivism: The progressive politics paradox
  • Buen Vivir: A path towards Socio-Eco Wellbeing
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Sustaining the "Good Life": Buen Vivir as an alternative to Sustainable Development
  • Indigenous origins to political discourse
  • A plural alternative to Sustainable Development
  • Buen Vivir: Equal aims, contested definitions
  • A grassroots solution to wellbeing and sustainability?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II
  • Chapter 4 Understandings of Buen Vivir in Ecuador's Cotacachi County
  • What does Buen Vivir entail?
  • A Grassroots perspective of needs
  • Materialism, economy, and Buen Vivir
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Living Well and Buen Vivir: Practice vs. policy?
  • Vivir Bien: A look at Buen Vivir in practice
  • The importance of plurality
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Challenging the Good Life
  • The extractivism dilemma
  • Socio-Eco Wellbeing for the Good Life
  • Perceptions and impacts of extractivism: The Buen Vivir-extractivism discord
  • Towards transformation: Post-extractivism and Buen Vivir
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Rethinking sustainability: Making the global align with the local
  • Status quo or transformation? The political justification for Buen Vivir
  • Enter the Sustainable Development Goals: What are the risks?
  • The local cooperating with the global
  • Differences and synergies between Buen Vivir and the SDGs
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Implementing Buen Vivir: The practical pathway to transformation
  • The plurality of community-led implementation: A hybrid approach
  • Needs and avoiding the materiality trap
  • The issue of measurement
  • Buen Vivir's pathway to Socio-Eco Wellbeing: A framework for change
  • References
  • Chapter 9 New horizons for Socio-Eco Wellbeing: Concluding remarks
  • Applying and implementing Buen Vivir beyond Latin America
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index