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$39.95, 1996, 250pp., ISBN 1-57444-012-8

Challenging conventional concepts of development and modernization, while surveying their contribution to "global dysfunction," the author argues for a social ecology based on quality of life and community, environmental sustainability, and "needs-based" rather than growth-oriented economic systems. Communities must find their own paths to environmentally sustainable recovery from local manifestations of global dysfunction.

Key Features:

• Traces evolution of global dysfunction from colonial period to present
• Integrated analysis of human dimensions of global change
• Extensive literature review relating to Third World development, human ecology, political economy, and geography
• Systematic treatment of World Bank and related data on socioeconomic and environmental welfare
• Presents global "hotspot"%97the Kurds and Kurdistan

This book will find a home among social and economic policy makers, human ecologists, regional science analysts, public administrators
and economists, environmentalists, anthropologists, journalists and environmental educators, community planners and ecological economists, and public and ecosystem health specialists.

Editors/Authors

Yosef Gotlieb is the founding director of the Israel Center for International Environmental Studies and is a researcher at Clark University's Marsh Institute. His work over the years has taken him to Israel, Costa Rica, Nepal, and Siberia among others. His current interests include ecological energetics, indigenous knowledge systems, and environmental cooperation as a means to reduce international conflict. He is an accomplished author whose work has been translated into other languages.

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Introduction
• Section II: Global Dysfunction: Multiple Problems, One Problematic
• Section III: The Society-Nature Relationship
• Section IV: The Endogenous Recovery Region
• Section V: Articulation of the Social Ecology Thesis
• Section VI: Contemporary Kurdistan as an Endogenous Recovery Region
• Section VII: Endogenous Recovery and a Choice of Future(s)

$39.95, 1996, 250pp., ISBN 1-57444-012-8

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