Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development : Other Paths for Papua New Guinea / Paul James, Yaso Nadarajah, Karen Haive, Victoria C. Stead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Paul (Paul Warren), 1958- author.

Haive, Karen, author.

Nadarajah, Yaso, author.

Series:

Writing past colonialism series.

Writing Past Colonialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Papua New Guinea.

Community development.

Sustainable development--Papua New Guinea.

Sustainable development.

Papua New Guinea--Economic conditions.

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to the country's slow decline since independence in 1975. Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development attempts to address problems and gaps in the literature on development and develop a new qualitative conception of community sustainability informed by substantial and innovative research in Papua New Guinea. In this context, sustainability is conceived in terms that include not just practices tied to economic development. It also informs questions of wellbeing and social integration, community-building, social support, and infrastructure renewal. In short, the concern with sustainability here entails undertaking an analysis of how communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change, rather than being constrained within discourses and models of development. From another angle, this project presents an account of community sustainability detached from instrumental concerns with economic development.Contributors address questions such as: What are the stories and histories through which people respond to their nation's development? What is the everyday social environment of groups living in highly diverse areas (migrant settlements, urban villages, remote communities)? They seek to contribute to a creative and dynamic grass-roots response to the demands of everyday life and local-global pressures. While the overdeveloped world faces an intersecting crisis created by global climate change and financial instability, Papua New Guinea, with all its difficulties, still has the basis for responding to this manifold predicament. Its secret lies in what has been seen as its weakness: underdeveloped economies and communities, where people still maintain sustainable relations to each other and the natural world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Authors

Preface and Acknowledgments

I. Communities in Context

II. Communities in Place

III. Community Development

IV. Community Learning

Appendix: Project Partnerships and Coordination

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-449) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824871611

0824871618

9780824861209

0824861205

OCLC:

821737101