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Development beyond markets, and bioregionalism
Author(s) -
Rajeswar Jonnalagadda
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
sustainable development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.115
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1099-1719
pISSN - 0968-0802
DOI - 10.1002/sd.196
Subject(s) - sustainability , sustainable development , politics , ideology , ecology , natural resource economics , political science , economics , law , biology
Far more than technology‐oriented resource economics, development also involves ecological, institutional, cultural, traditional, intellectual, ethical and spiritual dimensions. Conventional economic indicators fail to even measure economic sustainability, let alone accurately reflect social and ecological aspects of sustainable development. Hence, it is highly essential to standardize the human and social development indicators, rather than, or in addition to, the integrated accounting framework in monetary and physical terms. Given the growth fixation in global economy, and the resulting environmental breakdown, the real battleground on which the ecological future of the planet will be decided is clearly a social one. There has been an increasing ideological support for ‘bioregionalism’. The densely forested Eastern Ghats region of Andhra Pradesh in India, with its obvious eco‐political potential, offers a typical case for ‘bioregionalism’. The author has conducted extensive ethno‐ecological studies in the high altitude tribal area zone of the Eastern Ghats. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment