Maldevelopment to Sustainable Development : A Philosophical Enquiry into the Ecology Based Development Theory of Vandana Shiva / Nilson, P. D.

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A CRITIQUE ON THE PRESENT MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT ............4 FROM ANTHROPOCENTRISM TO ECO-CENTRISM..............................5 Mechanistic Worldview................................ 6 Exploitative Development................................... 8 Humans Are Not Outside the Web of Life............................. 11 DEVELOPMENT, ECOLOGY AND WOMEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT....... 13 Development a New Project of Western Patriarchy................................ 14 Maldevelopment as the Death of Feminine Principle.............................. 16 Women, Environment and Development............................. 17 SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECOLOGICAL CRISIS................ 19 Modern Science as Patriarchy`s Project...................20 Profits, Reductionism and Violence.................................21 The Natural Unnatural Divide................... 24 WOMEN IN NATURE....................................... 25 Nature as Feminine Principle............................26 Nature and Women as Producers of Life.......................... 28 THE ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE COMMUNITY CONCEPT....................... 32 People - Centered Development...........................33 Conservation as Development................34 Why an Ethics of Sustainable development?................................. 36 FROM OWNERSHIP TO PARTNERSHIP.................................................. ? From Domination to Partnership.................................... 37 Merging the Economy and environment....................................... 40 A HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS............................................... 41 A Holistic Vision..........................................42 The Ecological Consciousness ...................................................43 From Growth to Sustainable Development ..........................................45 A NEW COSMOLOGY TOWARDS A MORE ECO-FRIENDLY VISION AND ACTION. A NEW MISSION FOR HUMANKIND.............................................. 48 Our Ecological Responsibility..........49 Interdependence and Reciprocity ................. 50 Human Altruism................ 51 Rebuilding Connections........................... 53