This book examines the motives and experiences of members of an ecovillage community as they strive to develop a redefined sense of self-world relations. The ecovillage movement has arisen as an attempt to define the parameters of a new social paradigm, in response to the dominant social paradigm that is seen to have had disastrous consequences on the social, ecological, and personal fabric of our lives. This paradigm has, through 300 years of history, constructed a "consumer landscape" over the original "empty space" of the American continent which binds up our psychic attention, alienating...
This book examines the motives and experiences of members of an ecovillage community as they strive to develop a redefined sense of self-world...
Focuses on the profound effect of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. The text considers the historic role of defence expenditure, patterns of regional change and restructuring the military-industrial complex.
Focuses on the profound effect of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. The text c...
This book, originally published in 1982, begins with an examination of space, and its role in the process of public provision and collective consumption. Variations in provision are linked to the Weberian notion of social status and political struggles over consumption and externality issues. Health care and education are considered in spatial contexts, and the whole basis of the electoral system is also discussed together with geographic underpinnings. In each case emphasis is placed on the jurisdictional organization of space by public bodies. The author examines the various examples of...
This book, originally published in 1982, begins with an examination of space, and its role in the process of public provision and collective consum...
Built upon the good practice for which the Dyscovery Centre has become so well known, this book takes a broader view of the difficulties that those with additional needs face. It considers whether this is a health, educational or social difficulty and what the wider implications are for the individual and how they manage at home and in the community.
The authors look at what happens, what can be done to help and what changes occur as the child becomes an adolescent and eventually an adult.
