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FROM ECONOMIC GROWTH TO QUALITY OF LIFE

PCDForum Column #64,   Release Date November 1, 1993


by People’s Research Institute on Energy and Environment


In official discussions of the environmental crisis, one important reality
is consistently ignored or denied Sustained economic growth is simply
incompatible with environmental protection. Japan and other industrial countries
must trim their economies to reduce the burdens our lifestyles place on the rest
of […]

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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECOLOGY AND EXPORT ORIENTED INDUSTRIALIZATION

PCDForum Column #32,   Release Date May 1, 1992


by Walden Bello


The world’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are taking an increasing
interest in the human rights, social justice, and ecological implications of
national and global economic policies. This interest is well placed and reveals
a growing sophistication. Consider for example, the implications of
export-oriented industrialization (EOI).


The IMF-World Bank conference in Bangkok […]

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DETOXIFYING THE GREEN REVOLUTION

PCDForum Column #34,   Release Date May 1, 1992


by Nicanor Perlas


Everyone knows that to feed its growing population the world must rely on
the chemical intensive agricultural technologies of the Green Revolution.
Everyone, that is, except the growing number of farmers who are outperforming
their chemical dependent neighbors using methods that work with, rather than
against, natural ecological forces. […]

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RESULTS OF RIO: AN EMERGING SOCIAL MOVEMENT

PCDForum Column #38 Release Date July 20, 1992

by Nola Kate Seymoar, Ph.D.

While the official delegates deliberating at the Earth Summit
in Rio Centro argued over the placement of commas in their
documents, something substantial was happening across town
in the Gloria Hotel and the tents at Flamingo Park. Ordinary
people from all around the world were forging a global social
movement […]

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DEVELOPMENT HERESY AND THE ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

January 2, 1992, For publication in Development by the Society for International Development

David C. Korten
The People-Centered Development Forum

David Korten argues that the search for
solutions to the environmental crisis
generally misses an essential point, i.e.
that human economic activity has passed
a critical threshold and now fills the
available ecological space. Policy prescriptions that fail to acknowledge this
reality are deepening the […]

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BUILDING A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ECONOMY

PCDForum Column #33,   Release Date May 1, 1992


by Bishan Singh


As the inefficient, control-driven state economies of Eastern Europe
collapse, many are inclined to assume that the only alternative is the
profit-driven free enterprise economy. Such an assumption neglects the
implications of the experiences of citizen organizations around the world that
are demonstrating many on a consequential scale the […]

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NGOs AND THE UNCED FOLLOW-UP PROCESS: CONTINUING NEED FOR INDEPENDENT ACTION

PCDForum Column #42      Release Date November 20, 1992

by Martin Khor

In the aftermath of UNCED, NGOs have met in nearly
every nation of the world to define the actions they will
take in relation to agreements reached in Rio. Though its
official fora failed to address essential issues, the UNCED
process opened many new opportunities for NGOs and
social movements to […]

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GLOBAL CITIZEN’S DIPLOMACY: QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

PCDForum Column #35,   Release Date May 1, 1992


by Isagani R. Serrano


The growing threat posed by ecological destruction to the survival of human
society has become so serious that meaningful debate centers not on whether
action is needed, but rather on who will take the lead and how. It is here we
face the frightening fact that no […]

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RETHINKING U.S. INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE AS IF PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT MATTER

PCDForum Column #43,   Release Date November 20, 1992

by David C. Korten

In Earth in the Balance, America’s Vice President elect Al
Gore calls for a commitment to sustainability as the organizing principle of public policy. We may hope the new U.S.
administration will heed this timely and appropriate call.
Given the global nature of the issues any such […]

2021-01-08T14:04:12-08:00November 15th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|

CIVIL SOCIETY IS THE FIRST SECTOR

PCDForum Column #31,  Release Date May 1, 1992


by Rajesh Tandon


The recent emergence of powerful democratizing forces in Eastern Europe,
Africa, Latin America, and Asia presses us to acknowledge that the greatest
threat to the democratic function of society is the continuous effort of the
modern state to dominate the institutions of civil society. The time has come […]

2021-01-08T14:04:11-08:00November 15th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|
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