Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality (Democracy and Ecology) - Hardcover

Leff, Enrique

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898624118 ISBN 13: 9780898624113

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1995

Synopsis

Enrique Leff provides a Marxist approach to environment and development that focuses on the process of production, and its implications of the environmental crisis on human values. To truly achieve a more rational and integrated use of our natural resources, he convincingly argues for a reorientation of science and technology towards the objectives of sustainable development, the decentralization of production, and the participatory management of natural resources. Elaborating the links between critical political economy of the environment and political ecology, the author offers an alternative paradigm--based on a concept of ecotechnological rationality--for understanding and effectively integrating ecological productivity, technological innovation, and cultural organization in natural resource management. In addition, he provides an illuminating critique of traditional economic approaches to environmental development planning.

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About the Author

Enrique Leff, Ph.D., has been working with the United Nations Environment Programme since 1986 as Regional Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published extensively on a critical theory of environment and development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898624118
• ISBN 13: 9780898624113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168