Sustainability and Well-Being: The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy
- ISBN-10
- 1137308990
- ISBN-13
- 9781137308993
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 114
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-20
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- A. Bandarage
Description
Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation. She presents an incisive social science analysis and an alternative philosophical perspective on the needed transition from a worldview of domination to one of partnership.
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