Sustainability and well-being : The middle path to environment, society and the economy / Asoka Bandarage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bandarage, Asoka, 1950-

Contributor:

Palgrave Connect (Online service)

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online text (96 pages :)

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Asoka Bandarage is Adjunct Professional Lecturer at American University, USA. She is the author of Colonialism in Sri Lanka; Women, Population and Global Crisis; The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka, and many other publications.

Summary:

A powerful social science analysis and a compassionate philosophical perspective to face the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being. Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation. She presents an incisive social science analysis and an alternative philosophical perspective on the needed transition from a worldview of domination to one of partnership.

"In this meticulously researched scholarly work, Bandarage brilliantly demonstrates that environmental sustainability and social justice are inseparable problems requiring a fundamental social and psychological transformation. This book synthesizes a vast amount of data and research from a broad range of fields from global political economy to religion and philosophy. It is a must read for professionals and students of Environmental Studies; Global Studies, Women's Studies and the social sciences in general." - Filomina Chioma Steady, Wellesley College, USA "Admirably combining rigorous scholarship and a readable style, Asoka Bandarage's book is an urgent call for both personal and social transformation, rooted in the timeless wisdom of the Buddhist Middle Path, while building on the contemporary conditions which offer unprecedented possibilities and opportunities to bring about such a revolutionary transformation." - Sajed Kamal, Brandeis University, USA "Asoka Bandarage contends that economics, politics, and social relations must be guided by ethical and spiritual commitments as potent as the forces now causing such drastic upheavals. The vision she articulates is one in which the domination model of social organization, rooted in dualism, is replaced by a new model rooted in the view of interdependence and valuing partnership and collaboration rather than ruthless competition." - Bhikku Bodhi, Buddhist Global Relief, USA.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Environment, Society and Economy 2. Environmental, Social and Economic Collapse 3. Evolution of the Domination Paradigm 4. Ecological and Social Justice Movements 5. Ethical Path to Sustainability and Wellbeing.

Notes:

Part of the Palgrave Pivot collection, available through Palgrave Connect.

ISBN:

9781137308993

1137308990

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