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There are social limits to eco-economic growth, yet they are not actively accounted for within this new dominant paradigm. This situation has very important implications under sustainable development and sustainability. ...

The article shows the role occupied by the favela and its residents in political and social debate during the first half of the 20th Century. It highlights the production of knowledge generated by journalists, physicians...

“We have our own Development Vision”: Poverty and Prosperity in Andhra PradeshOliver MaxwellA three way dispute between environmental campaigner George Monbiot, the Minister for International Development, Clare Short, ...

The economic and social thinking of Latin America was enriched by the Latin American Development School(LDS). That is the name given in this essay to the contributions from distinguished social scientists who, during fif...

There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized and action as governed by social norms, rul...

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are...

I. Introduction 1. Self-Determination Theory: An Introduction and Overview II. Philosophical and Historical Considerations 2. Organismic Principles: Historical Perspectives on Development and Integration in Living Entiti...

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert D. Putnam (bio) Many students of the new democracies that have emerged over the past decade and a half have emphasized the importance of a strong and active civi...