The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies : selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'Alternative Ways of Life', organized by UNU and SID, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978 and Trrappeto, Sicily, 1979
By: Miles, Ian.
Contributor(s): Irvine, John.
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BookPublisher: Oxford, UK 1982; Pergamon Description: xxiii, 344 p. ill. 22 cm.ISBN: 008027935X.Subject(s): SOCIAL RESEARCH | DEVELOPED COUNTRIES | STATISTICAL DATA
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- Conferences on Alternative Ways of Life organized by the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Develoment (GPID) Project of the UNU and the Society for International Development (SID).
Introduction --- John Irvine and Ian Miles Chapter 1: Why the Concern with Ways of Life? ---Johan Galtung, Dag Poleszynski and Monica Wemegah Chapter 2: The 'Abundant Society' and World Order: Dominant Ways of Life in the United States --- Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet Chapter 3: The Dominant Way of Life in Norway: Positive and and Negative Aspects --- Dag Poleszynski Chapter 4: The Dominant Way of Life in Switzerland: A Case Study of Symptoms of Overdevelopment --- VIonica Wemegah, with Jean-Paul Barfuss Chapter 5: The Dominant Way of Life in Britain: A Case John Irvine and Ian Miles --- John Irvine and Ian Miles Chapter 6: On Ways of Life in Poland --- Andrzej Sicinski Chapter 7: Alternative Ways of Life in the Netherlands --- Anneke Schipper-Van Otterloo and Peter Ester Chapter 8: Alternative Ways of Life in Denmark --- Fens Falkentorp, Dino Hansen, Steen Juhler, Mogens Klovedal and Per L0vetand Chapter 9: From Things to Experiences — Changing Values in Contemporary Japan --- Hidetoshi Kato Chapter 10: Another Development for Europe in the 1980s --- Richard Jolly Chapter 11: On Establishing Alternative Ways of Life --- Ian Miles and John Irvine Appendix: Papers Presented at GPID/SID Meetings on Alternative Ways of Life
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