the social and cultural ecology of sustainable development /
edited by Per Råberg.
New York :
Routledge,
1997.
456 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
25 cm.
Routledge studies in development and society ;
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The book includes a number of contributions which appeared at three R & D conferences held in 1992 and 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
Global Paradigm -- Ecological Imperative -- Theory of Social Ecology -- Sustainable Region -- Regional Development in the New Europe / Walter B. Stohr -- Region, Territory and Identity / Torsten Malmberg -- Forces of the Social Life-Space / Gunilla Lundahl -- Ecological Life-Region / Per Raberg -- Life-Region Vasternorrland / Jan Henriksson / Per Raberg -- Culture and Regional Identity / Michel Bassand -- Avant-Garde -- A Door to the Cosmos / Jean Fischer -- Mass Culture Meets Man / Sidsel Morck -- Culture of Nature / Per Raberg -- Mobilizing Regional Culture. The Case of Vasternorrland -- Cultural Retrospective of Vasternorrland / Harry Ordell -- Local Culture in Ornskoldsvik. Local Culture Study Group / A. Soderstrom / A. Wistedt / K. E. Axenstrom -- Mosaic: An Ethnical Culture Forum -- Role of Global Culture in Vasternorrland / Global Culture Study Group / Barbro Bjork -- Para-Museum Y -- Cultural Renewal and the Regional Landscape / Regional Culture Study Group / Inger Lilliequist -- Eco-Museum Vasternorrland -- Social Life and the Living Region / Per Raberg -- Grass-Roots in the New Age. Experiences from Vasternorrland -- Eco-School in Harnosand. Education for the sustainable Region -- Gullanget Town-Neighbourhood. An Experiment in Socio-ecological Planning -- Megamedia Centre Bothnia: An IT Vision for Vasternorrland -- Public Health Is Social Welfare. Legacy of the 1991 WHO World Conference in Sundsvall -- Summary -- Economy in the Viable Region -- Science of Social Ecology -- App.Conference Programme I -- The Region as Living Space -- App.Conference Programme II -- Culture and the Living Region.
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The Life Region launches a strategy for sustainable development, setting out from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the world, and the introduction of self-reliant civic strategies in national and international politics. Three aspects of regional policy are looked at in detail: spatial planning, cultural policy and social development, and regional economics and regional science are also touched upon. Presenting the ideas of a number of distinguished European researchers and debaters, The Life Region will be a major contribution to the emerging debate on social and cultural strategies for sustainable global development.