The Life Region : The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9780415159050 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 456 str.

Per Raberg

Opis

Our planet urgently needs strategies for assessing sustainable development. But it is not sufficient to limit radical thinking to environmental protection and resource management. It is necessary at the same time to focus on the socio-cultural symptoms of crisis which affect modern society. What is required now are holistic models of development which, within the same context, pay attention to the social, cultural and environmental issues for the contemporary global crisis. This text launches a strategy for sustainable development, setting out from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or life region. Emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the world, and introduction of self-reliant civic strategies in national and international politics. Three aspects of regional policy are looked at in detail: spatial planning, cultural policy and social development, and regional economics and regional science are also touched upon.

Spis treści

I: The Perspective; Introduction; A Global Paradigm; The Ecological Imperative; A Theory of Social Ecology; The Sustainable Region; II: Region and Territory; Regional Development in the New Europe; Region, Territory and Identity; The Forces of the Social Life-Space; The Ecological Life-Region; Life-Region Västernorrland; III: Region and Culture; Culture and Regional Identity; The Avant - Garde: A Door to the Cosmos; Mass Culture Meets Man; The Culture of Nature; Mobilizing Regional Culture; A Cultural Retrospective of Västernorrland; Local Culture in Örnsköldsvik; Mosaic; The Role of Global Culture in Västernorrland; Para-Museum Y; Cultural Renewal and the Regional Landscape; Eco-Museum Västernorrland; IV: Region and Community; Social Life and the Living Region; Grass-Roots in the New Age; The Eco-School in Härnösand; Gullänget Town-Neighbourhood; Megamedia Centre Bothnia; Public Health Is Social Welfare; V: Epilogue; Summary; Economy in the Viable Region; The Science of Social Ecology

O autorze

Per Raberg