| Description |
1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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? |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Sustainable development -- Ecuador
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000257878 |
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1000257878 |
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