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Subject: WEALTH, POVERTY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Proudly announcing the publication of a new (bilingual) book:
WEALTH, POVERTY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
David Barkin
>From the Introduction by Victor Manuel Toledo:=20
For the good fortune of serious and committed thinkers, a firmly grounded
theoretical reflection about sustainable development continues to grow. A
really transformative or "subversive" version is possible, with an
enormous potential for a new type of soc ial mobilization and political
struggle.=20
David Barkin attempts a definition of sustainable development,
before it becomes, irreversibly, converted into an "ideological
instrument" of the dominant system. He dares to focus on the problem of
poverty, an aspect that has remained outside, or at lea st marginal, in
most of the proposals about sustainability, thus placing himself squarely
in a "Southern" perspective that differs from the theorizations coming
from "Northern" authors...Barkin recognizes that the basic canons of a
truly sustainable devel opment must include: diversity, self-sufficiency,
local control and participation, grassroots democracy and autonomy. Of
special interest is the theme of social control, especially the control by
individuals and the society as a whole over the productive process... In
the final analysis, it is not possible to distinguish the expoliation of
nature from the mechanisms of social exploitation.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Victor Manuel Toledo
1 Two paths diverge: one to wealth, the other to poverty
2 Wealth, poverty and environmental degradation
A. Background to the current crises
B. Policies that promote environmental destruction and rural poverty
C. The dynamics of rural poverty
3 The internationalization of capital
A. Trade and the environment: the failings of the state
B. The failings of marketplace
C. The separation of consumption and production
D. The economic analysis of the `problem'
E. A popular response=20
4. New strategies for rural sustainable development: popular
participation, food self-sufficiency and environmental regeneration
A. Sustainability
B. Review of the literature
C. Food self-sufficiency: the relationship between production and
consumption
D. Popular participation, social justice, and autonomy
E. A strategy of democratic participation for rural
diversification and productive improvement
F. The varieties of sustainable development
G. Autonomous development: a strategy for sustainability
Bibliography
ISBN: 968-7671-04-1 1998. Publishers: Editorial Jus, Centro de Ecolog=EDa y
Desarrollo, Centro Lindavista
Price: US$10.00, plus $3 postage and handling
Orders: Centro de Ecolog=EDa y Desarrollo, Apartado 11-440, 06100
M=E9xico, DF MEXICO.=20
Tel: (525) 264-8758; 264-2138 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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