Empowerment for sustainable development
Subtitle: towards operational strategies
By: [edited by] Vangile Titi and Naresh C. Singh.
Contributors: Dei, George Jerry Sefa, 1954-; Hall, Budd L.; Singh, Naresh C.; Titi, Vangile, 1952-; Sullivan, Edmund V.; International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher: Fernwood Publications; Zed Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Halifax, N.S; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Congresses; Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Description: While fashionable rhetoric threatens to overwhelm clear thinking sustainable development, the authors of this study believe that serious and difficult questions need to be asked if we are to move to a concept and practice of development which really integrates the needs of people, the economy, the environment and the practical world of decision-making. In particular, it is too easy to assume a positive relation between poverty reduction and an improved environment.

Instead they argue that the alleviation of poverty and sustainable development are only likely if the idea of empowerment and its practical institutionalization in the law, the educational process and the machinery of government becomes a reality. This innovative book explores some of the multiple ways in which this approach could become a reality, as well as the difficulties that stand in the way.
Notes: A collection of edited presentations from a workshop convened by the IISD in Toronto in November 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transformative education and environmental action in the Ecozoic era / Budd Hall and Edmund Sullivan; title: Indigenous knowledge as an empowerment tool for sustainable development / George J. Sefa Dei.