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...