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Development, Environment, and Global Dysfunction. Toward Sustainable Recovery
This book challenges conventional concepts of development and Modernization and surveys their contribution to "global dysfunction"-entrenched poverty, environmental degradation and socio-political unrest. Gotlieb argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction.
200 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1995
About the author
Yosef Gotlieb
4 books6 followersYosef Gotlieb was born in Costa Rica, raised and educated in the US, and has made his home in Israel since 1984. In addition to his prose fiction and verse, Yosef Gotlieb's published work include Self-Determination in the Middle East, Development, Environment and Global Dysfunction, and numerous monographs and articles.
Yosef Gotlieb is a graduate of Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) where he completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy (Phi Sigma Tau) and sociology, and graduate studies in liberal arts and geography. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the relationship between ethnicity and development and offered a model for sustainable development in postcolonial countries. He has taught middle and high school social studies and environmental science, has mentored master’s and doctoral students and has trained development professionals from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean at the Development Study Center in Rehovot, Israel. He has worked in development and international cooperation in Israel and Nepal.
Dr. Gotlieb is on the faculty of the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem, where he directs the Text and Publishing Studies program. He is a contributor to Green Prophet, the Mideast environmental website.
In addition to his involvement in environmental, social action, and patients advocacy groups, Yosef Gotlieb is active in the Israel Section of the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC) and several literary groups.
Yosef Gotlieb resides with his family near Jerusalem. His blog, Issues of the day, appear on his website at www.ysgotlieb.net. He is currently at work on his next novel, Dance of the Uroboros.
Yosef Gotlieb is a graduate of Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) where he completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy (Phi Sigma Tau) and sociology, and graduate studies in liberal arts and geography. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the relationship between ethnicity and development and offered a model for sustainable development in postcolonial countries. He has taught middle and high school social studies and environmental science, has mentored master’s and doctoral students and has trained development professionals from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean at the Development Study Center in Rehovot, Israel. He has worked in development and international cooperation in Israel and Nepal.
Dr. Gotlieb is on the faculty of the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem, where he directs the Text and Publishing Studies program. He is a contributor to Green Prophet, the Mideast environmental website.
In addition to his involvement in environmental, social action, and patients advocacy groups, Yosef Gotlieb is active in the Israel Section of the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC) and several literary groups.
Yosef Gotlieb resides with his family near Jerusalem. His blog, Issues of the day, appear on his website at www.ysgotlieb.net. He is currently at work on his next novel, Dance of the Uroboros.
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