Sustainability and Wellbeing: Human-Scale Development in Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138597556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str.

Monica Guillen-Royo

Opis

The book fills a gap in sustainable development studies as it draws on a range of case-studies to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development (HSD) framework in practice. The book presents the potential of the HSD methodology to analyse complex socio-economic, political and environmental realities, to identify sustainable wellbeing interventions and to engage communities or groups of people in local, bottom-up social transformation processes towards sustainable wellbeing.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  PART I  2. Sustainable development, economic growth and human wellbeing  3. The Human Scale Development proposal  PART II  4. Methodology and practice of Human Scale Development 5. Exploring avenues for sustainable development through needs-based workshops  6. Engaging with communities: Human scale development-based participatory action research  7. Supporting local sustainability initiatives  PART III  8 Challenges and limitations to the practice of Human Scale Development  9 Conclusion

O autorze

Mònica Guillen-Royo is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway.