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

ISBN-13: 9781138867314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str.

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Opis

The Life Region 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'.

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

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