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Title Sustainability Development-Eco-revolutionary Paradigms from Binary to Continuum Constructs
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Authors Patterson, R
Title Sustainability Development-Eco-revolutionary Paradigms from Binary to Continuum Constructs
Year 2011
Published Perspectives On Global Development And Technology, 10, 1
DOI 10.1163/156914911X555107
Abstract Sustainable development and eco-revolution represent competing paradigms of progress, one emphasizing reform while the other emphasizes revolution with respect to an economy that is sustained by a restorative ecology. The first paradigm contends that a regenerative economy and restorative ecology are achievable only by a series of reforms while the second paradigm contends that the desired economy and ecology are achievable only via abrupt and decisive revolutionary change. This article argues that between the binary paradigmatic heuristic, there is a series or a parliament of possibilities between the two poles.
Author Keywords sustainable development; regenerative economy; restorative ecology; sustainability paradigms; eco-revolution
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Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:000213049000005
WoS Category Development Studies
Research Area Development Studies
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