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SUSTAINABLE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
Toward a Philosophy for Human Development for the
Twenty-First Century
From Biological Evolution to Cultural Adaptation
Cultural Evolution, Symbolism, and Globalization
The Inherited Burden of the Twentieth Century
From Cultural Evolution to Technophysio
Evolution
Human Progress and Prospects at the End of the Twentieth
Century
Culture: Evolution and Diversity
Global Demographic Transition: Socio-Economic Consequences
and Potential
Demographic Change: Alarm About Depopulation and Stagnation?
Demographic Change: A Window of Development Opportunities?
Migration and Human Development
Education, Learning Innovations, and Motivation
Education Quantity and Quality
Learning Innovations
Motivation and Morals
Globalization and Human Development
The Income and Capability Gap: Unequal Opportunities and
Poverty
Gender
Environment
MAJOR
ISSUES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Human Development: What it means
Traditionalism vs. Universalism in the definition of human
rights
Measuring Human Development
Diversity: Consequences for Human Development
Why Measure Human Development
Foreign Assistance and Human Development
Prospects for Human Development
Disciplinary Approaches to Human Development
ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Ways in which Anthropology Considers Issues of Development
What is Development?
Development and Social Policy
Implications of Development for People’s Lives
Development and Ideology
Techniques of Persuasion: Manipulating Minds
Comparability of Countries
Human Development and Agriculture: An Anthropological
Analysis
What is Agriculture? Corporate/State Farms versus Family
Farms
Myths of Cheap Food and Efficiency
Environmental Hazards
The Focus of Agronomic Research and its Support
When is High-tech Needed?
Land Reform and Local Autonomy
Who Will Feed the World in the Twenty-First Century?
The Hope for the Future: Counter-corporatization
with a Human Face
New Social Movements and Relocalization
MORAL
DEVELOPMENT AND MORAL EDUCATION
Nature of Moral Value
The Cognitive Developmental Approach
The Social Learning Approach
Conditioning
Modeling (Imitation)
Moral Development and Moral Education
SUSTAINABLE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: CONNECTING THE SCIENTIFIC AND MORAL DIMENSIONS
The Natural Context of Human Development
The Cultural Context of Human Development
Connecting the Natural and Human Contexts
ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable Human Development in Economic Development
Thinking
Nation-State Building and Enhanced Stainable Development
Development Crisis and Structural Adjustment
Declining Human Development and Rising Poverty
Globalization and Sustainable Human Development
DIVERSITY
AND HISTORICAL PROCESSES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Historical roots of diversity
Optimists versus pessimists: a dialogue
The danger of teleological explanations
Scientific development and views of nature
Impact on the global environment
Human diversity in recent times
Demographic and Capabilities Diversities
Diversity in Resource Endowments
IMPACT
OF NEUROSCIENCE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Neuroscience Before the Twentieth Century
Structure of the Nervous System
Neurons
Neuroscience in the Twentieth Century
Neuronal Signaling
Action Potential
Synaptic Transmission
Neuronal Circuits
Neuronal Differentiation
Axon Guidance
Plasticity of Synapses
Neuronal Systems
Sensation and Perception
Learning and Memory
Emotion
Neuroscience Towards the Twenty-First Century
Consciousness
Gene Hunting
Biochip
Challenges
EQUITY,
GROWTH, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Equity and Growth: Exposing the Grand Theories to Data
Global Trends in Inequality
The Double Misfortune of the Poor
Growth and Human Development: Learning from the Outliers
Asset Distributions and Growth
Empirical Relationships and Policy Levers
GLOBAL
INTERDEPENDENCE, PRIVATIZATION OF RISK, AND HUMAN INSECURITY
Global Interdependence: a New Global System?
Finance and the Privatization of Risk
Governance: the Changing Roles of National Authorities
Prospects for Human Development in the Emerging Global
Village
On the Supply and Demand of Labor
Poverty
GLOBALIZATION
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW
The Foundational Issues
Globalization
Technological Change
Liberalization of Trade and Capital (and Labor) Flows
Multinational Corporations
"Free" Markets/Trade
Economic Development
Human Development
The Importance of Being Moral
Mixed Economy
Globalization, "Price Rightism,"
and Free Markets/Trade
Economic Agents in This Age of Globalization
Globalization and Market Access
Asymmetrical Nature of the GATT-WTO System
The Inaccessible OECD Market
Globalization and the Slowing Down of the Engine of Economic
Growth and Human -Development
The Weakening of Structural Transformation
The Worsening Human Development
The Twenty-First Century and the New Frontiers
The Monkey Wrench in the Works
Regulating Globalization
An Overarching Vision
The End of Laissez-Faire
Resolving the Moral Dilemma
POPULATION
TRANSITION
Demographic Transition
Population Growth Before 1950
Population Change 1950 to 2000
Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase
Twentieth Century Migration
Urbanization
Changing Age Profiles
Population Prospects 2000 to 2050
Economic Development and Environment
Perspectives and Responses to Population Growth
The 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development
ECOLOGICAL
AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Legislative History
The United
States
The European Union
A Comparison of the US and the EU
Dissemination of Information
Sources of Pollutant Emissions and Emission Controls
Implementation and Enforcement
Air Quality Management
US Air Quality Management
EU Air Quality Management
Economic Incentives
Pollution Prevention (P2)
Permits and Licenses
Eco-Industrial Parks
Protection of Ecology
Cost Considerations
Effect of Air Pollution
The State of the Ecosystem
Ecological Indicators
Tools for Decision-Making
Risk Assessment
Cost and Economic Valuation
Cost-Effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Statutory Requirements
HEALTH,
SANITATION, NUTRITION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Health and Economic Development
The Effect of Development on Disease - Some Negative
Consequences
Health, Nutrition and Education
Water Supply, Sanitation and Health
Water and Economic Development
Increased Time for Productive Work
Nutrition and Development - Macro Considerations
Nutrition and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis
Empirical Studies of Nutrition and Productivity
Seasonal Hunger
Intra-Family Distribution of Food and Nutrients
BELIEF
AND ATTITUDE CHANGE IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Belief Construct
The Attitude Construct
Belief and Attitude Formation
The Psychology of Personality
The Social Context of Belief and Attitude Formation
The Cultural Context of Belief and Attitude Formation
Theories of Belief and Attitude Change
Persuasion, Communication and Attitude Change
The Role of Beliefs and Attitudes in Change Theories
Implications of Attitude and Belief Change for Human
Development
Are reformulated beliefs and attitudes related to social
change?
Changing Beliefs, Changing Attitudes: Evidence from the field
Fertility and Contraceptive Use
Gender Constructs
Consumerism
DEMOGRAPHIC
TRANSITION AND EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING -COUNTRIES
Education and Fertility
Trends and Patterns
Models of Explanation
Educations Impact on Morbidity and Mortality
Education and Development
CONSEQUENCES
OF GLOBAL CHANGE TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Three Revolutions
Concern with Economic Structures
From the Economic to the Human versus the Social
Evolution of the Concept of Human Development
Extension of the Concept of Efficiency
POLICY-MAKING
IN A GLOBALISING WORLD ECONOMY
Globalisation Trends
Policy-Making in A Globalising
World Economy
INEQUALITIES
IN EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Measuring Educational Outcomes and Household Wealth
The Wealth Gap in Educational Attainment and Enrollment
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment and Enrollment
The Interaction of Wealth and Gender
Gender Gaps by Wealth
Wealth Gaps by Gender
International Correlates of Education Gaps
NATURAL
RESOURCE AVAILABILITY
Availability and Scarcity
Concepts and Classifications
Resources and Classical Economics
The Neoclassical Contribution
The Empirical Evidence
Market Failures
The Environmentalists Role
The Problem of Scale
Substitutability
Sustainability
Green Accounting
International Conflicts
POVERTY:
DIMENSIONS AND PROSPECTS
Poverty Measurement
Dimensions of Poverty
Prospects for Achieving the IDG on Poverty
Prospects: Growth and the Income of the Poor
GLOBAL
POPULATION AGING
Global Trends in Population Aging: Inequality of Aging Pace,
Timing, and Initial Social and Economic Conditions
Consequences of Population Aging: Adjusting to "the
Crisis"
Consequences for Developing Countries: Social Sector Reforms
-- Pension and Health -Care Systems
Beyond the Economic and Social Sector Reforms: Culture and
Laws, and the Special -Case of Vulnerable Women
Global Interaction of Populations and Economies: Migration as
a Special Case
HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
Physical and Behavioral Objectives
Scientific Management
Theories X and Y
Dissatisfaction and Motivation
Labor Quantity, Job Content, and Performance Quality
Quantitative Increases
Job Descriptions
Quality Assurance
Environment for Change
Increasingly Comprehensive Evaluation Perspective
Equity
Quality and Satisfaction
Sustainability and Renewal
The Global Village
Stakeholder Perspectives
Employee Views
Employer Views
Societal Views
Conflict Management
Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Career Adaptation
Organization Loyalty
Technology Balance
Work and Leisure Trade-off
INEQUALITY
AMONG WOMEN AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF MENA
Gender Gaps
Educational Gender Gap
Employment Gender Gap
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
Status of Women
Female Endangerment
GEM- FEM Adjustment
Inequality Among Women
Educational Inequality
The Impact on Economic Growth
SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Different Disciplinary Approaches to Social and Cultural
Development of Human Resources
Economics
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Cognitive Science
Political Science
Law
Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources
Homo sapiens
The Fallacy of Race Category
The Nation-states and Modernization Projects
Globalization
The Individual as Human Resource
Social Agents for Individual Socialization
Individual Motivation
Groupthink
Social Development of Human Resources
Socialization
Social Structure, Status, and Power
Birth Rates and Human Resource Development
Education
The Media
Formal and Informal Organizations as Social Groups
Social Organization and Sustainability
Social and Cultural Development Indicators
Rational Choice Theory
Consumption
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Motivation
Decision-making
Attitudes and behavior
Changing attitudes
Evaluating interventions
Organizational psychology
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
Conceptualizing Social Development
Current Trends of Social Development
The Emergent World Community
The Global Expansion of Economy
The Creation of a World Culture
The Internationalization of Governance
The UN system
The Nation-state
Local Participation and Empowerment
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY
Difference between Domestic Group and Family
Developmental Cycle of Domestic Group
Universality Function of Family
Family Organization
Types of Family
Nature of Family
Social Development in Relation to Family
Family and Nature of Changes
Patriarchy and Women
Family Law and Women
Customary Law
SOCIAL
ECOLOGY IN URBAN SETTING
Territorial Organization
Internal Organization of the City
Urban Symbolic Ecology
Urban Greenery and Agriculture
Mega-urbanization
THE
CONTEXT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Technology, Globalization, and Postmodernism
Towards an Urbanized World
Restructuring and Reinventing the Economies of Cities
Social Change
The Ecological Challenge
New Policy Paradigms
Two Urban Development Programs
THE
CONTEXT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Emergence of Rural Life
Characteristics of Rural Community
Classification of Rural Societies
Types of Agricultural Activities
Political Struggles and Land Ownership
Poverty in Rural Societies
Variations in Rural Society: Time and Space
Distinction Between Policy and Development
Survival of the Rural Poor: Poverty, Hunger and Sustainable
Development
How Green is Green Revolution
Approach to Rural Development
Nature of Agrarian Economy and Development Strategy
URBAN-RURAL
DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
RuralUrban Differences
Mega-urban Development
Rural Diversity
Rural Development
Theoretical Perspectives
Modernization
Dependency
Modernism
Postmodernism
Information Society
THE
SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF LABOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
The Urban Informal Sector
Developments in the Informal Sector
The Functioning of Labor Markets in Developing Countries
Labor Markets: Differentiation and Segmentation
The Functioning of Labor Markets
Regulation of Labor Markets
Challenges for Developing Countries
RURAL
ISSUES IN DEVELOPED NATIONS
Definitions
The post-World War II years
Agriculture in the forefront of European integration : The
60s and 70s and the tragedy of success
Policy changes in the 80s and 90s:Economy and ecology
Post-Cold-War worries and issues
Prospects and issues in rural life in developed
nations-towards a sustainable development of the countryside?
THE ROLE
OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Conceptual Framework
The Nation State and Ethnicity: Cases of Third
World Societies
RELIGIOUS
BELIEF AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Examples of Religious Belief and Worldview: Three North
American Indian Tribes
The Wintu
The Western Apache
The Mvskoke (Creek)
Summary: Views of the Environment
Religious Beliefs Translated into Action: North American
Indian Resource Management
The Wintu
The Western Apache
The Mvskoke (Creek)
Resource Management in Other North American Indian Tribes
GENDER
DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Gender Differences in Health Status
Measuring Health
Patterns and Causes of Mortality Differentials
Reproductive Health
Patterns of Morbidity Differentials
Causes of Gender Differentials in Morbidity
Policy Attempts to Alleviate Gender Differences in Health
Gender Differences in Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Educational Attainment: Concepts and Outcomes
Labor Market Outcomes
Labor Market Policies
Implications for Economic Growth and Policy
USE OF
RESOURCES AND SPACE
Cultural Processes, Resources, and Change
Resource Use in Domestically Organized Cultures
Domestically Organized Use of Space
Resource Use in Politically Organized Societies
Politically Organized Use of Space
Scale Limits to Political Power
Resource Use in Commercially Organized Societies
Domestic Space in Commercially Organized Societies
Current Trends and Examples
Significance of Trends in Relation to Current and Future
Problems
Explaining Scale Trends
Key Issues/Problems
CONSUMPTION
IN AFFLUENT SOCIETIES
Round Up the (Un)usual Suspects
The Disproportionate Consumption of the Haves
Social Class, Consumption, and the Environment
Affluent Cultures, Consumption, and the Environment
Dirt as Pollution versus Play
The Modern Way to Consume: Images of the Good Life and
Occidentalism
Materialism and Denial Strategies
Consume Locally, Condemn Globally
Accounting for Global Materialism
CONSUMPTION
IN DEVELOPING SOCIETIES
Basic Empirical Questions About Consumption
Households as Consumers
Inter-Household Inequality and Consumerism
Households and Consumption: Summary
Beyond Households: Power Infrastructures and Other Linkages
Utilities
Collective Consumption
Television, Marketing, and Capitalist Firms
Aggregating Developing Society Consumption
Appropriate Aggregation Methods
Aggregate Effects of Developing Society Consumption on the
-Environment
The Politics of Consumption in Developing Societies
CONSUMPTION
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Ethical Arguments for Changing Consumption Patterns
Perspectives on the Shaping of Consumption Patterns
Economics
Psychology of Consumption
Social and Cultural Influences on Consumption
TechnologyEeconomyCulture Linkages
Technological Change
Cultural Change
Policies for Changing Consumption Patterns
GLOBALIZATION
AND THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
Theories of Globalization and the Consumer Society.
Top-down theories.
Bottom-up theories.
Ecological theories.
Overconsumption and Underconsumption:
global ecological pressure
Definitions: sustainable consumption, underconsumption,
overconsumption.
Sustainable consumption.
Underconsumption.
Overconsumption.
Global energy use.
Overconsumption and underconsumption
and a sustainable quality of life.
Overconsumption and underconsumption
as interrelated social patterns.
Solutions/towards a sustainable future.
Intergenerational equity.
Intragenerational equity.
Risk Aversion Strategies.
Conservation of Biodiversity.
Internalization of Environmental Costs.
Enlightened Institutions.
SOCIAL
AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
Economic versus Social and Cultural Dimensions
Global Community, or Is It?
Two Hundred Years of Development
Development Scheme
Paradigm Shift
Frame of Reference
The Methodology of Social Measurement
The Cases of Social Measurement
The Development of Social Indicators
Economic Objectives
Functional Classification
Basic Human Needs
The Framework of Social Indicators
Social, Political, and Economic Characteristics of
Development by -Adelman and Morris
The OECD List of Social Indicators
World Development Indicators by the World Bank
Agenda 21
Baseline Scenarios by the IPCC
Indicators on Specific Spheres
Demographic Trends
Urbanization
Environmental Indicators
Services
Unpaid Work and Time Use
Policy Relevance of Indicators
The Foundation of Policy
Policy Formulation
Proper Issue Setting
EQUITY
Equity and inequity defined.
Intergenerational equity.
Intragenerational equity.
Relations of Inequity: Poverty, Hunger, and Health.
Theories about equity.
Top-down theories.
Bottom-up theories.
Ecological theories: ecological justice.
Equity and Human Rights: Economic, Social, Cultural, Civil
and Political Rights.
Equity, Inequity, and global ecological pressure.
Inequity, Globalization and the Capitalist World Market
Inequity and Global Ecological Pressure: Social and
Ecological Costs of -Overconsumption and Underconsumption
Gender, Inequity, and the Global System.
Equity and Sustainable Development: Providing for
Environmental Balance and Basic Human Needs.
HEALTHSOCIAL
AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
A Framework for Core Indicators
Historical Perspective
Impact of Poverty on Health
NorthSouth Perspective and the Debt Crisis
Impact of Population Pressure on Health
Major Causes of Mortality
Recent Trends in Health Thinking
Global Burden of Disease Study 19921994, published 1996/7
Cost-effectiveness of Health Interventions
DEVELOPMENT
OF HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS: HUMAN ASPIRATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Human Aspiration and Environmental Impacts
The Spaceship Earth and the System Boundary
Pollution
Material Flows
Global Warming
Sustainability Indicators and Accounting
Indicators
Green GDP
Environmental Accounting
Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA)
European System for the Collection of Economic Information on
the -Environment (SERIEE)
Measures of Economic Welfare
Economic Basis for Human and Social Development
Genuine Saving for Sustainability
Development Finance
Arms reduction
Technology Aspects
Global Governance
Policy Tools for Global Governance
The Valuation Issue
Green Accounting or Indicators
Towards Sustainability Analysis
GLOBAL
RESOURCE SYSTEM CHALLENGE I: EDUCATION
Knowledge for Sustainable Development
Investigating the Past- Looking into the Future
Human Beings and the Environment
Human Beings as Biosocial Species
Role of Cultural Knowledge
Role of Methodological Knowledge
Foundations of Educational Systems: an Overview
The main aims of Education
Organizational Context of Education
Structural Context of Education
Education for Sustainability
Education and Development
Education: the Challenge of Globalization
Education: the Challenge of the Consumer Society
FOUNDATIONS
OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
Educational Systems
National Education Systems
International and Transnational Structures in Education
Evolving Structures
Some Purposes of Educational Systems
Scope of Education Systems
Sectors of Education
Pre-Primary and Kindergarten Education
Secondary Education
Tertiary Education
Higher Education
Research
Lifelong Learning
Education Systems and Social Inclusion
Cultural and Financial Dimensions
Education Systems and Learning
Changes in Teaching and Learning
The Efficiency of Learning
The Changing Nature of Learning
Learning and Curriculum Design
Core Skills
The Internet and Technology
Processes of Learning
Changes in the Contexts for Learning
Assessment in an Education System
The Conceptual Shift
The Trends in Education for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development and the Disciplined Mind
ESSENTIAL
OBJECTIVES OF EDUCATION
Different Aspects of "Being Suited for Life"
The Knowledge-Driven Economy
Active Citizenship
Technological Competence and Sensitivity
Meeting Needs and Reducing Barriers to Learning
ActionReflectionAction
Ways of Expressing the Objectives of Education
The Significance of Structures
Objectives of Lifelong Learning
The Objectives of Education
Research-Led Knowledge
EDUCATION
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Twentieth Century in the Context of World History
The Twentieth Century -- the Century of Education
Problems of the Development of Modern Education
Illiteracy
Education and the Problem of Backwardness
Education and Power
Quality of Education
General Cultural Education
Education and Democracy
Integrated Picture of the World
Is it Possible to Call the Twentieth Century "the
Century of Education"?
Main Directions of the Reformation of Education
Continuing Education
Democratization
Humanitarization
Humanization
Fundamentalization
Integration
Standardization
Computerization
FOUNDATIONS
OF EDUCATION
Origins of education
Science and education
Education as a political and economical goal of a modern
state
Education in global politics
International cooperation in the field of education
Education in the post-Industrial world
Development of human Aspects as a goal of modern education
PLANNING,
ORGANIZATION, AND ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION
Planning
Unity in Strategic Planning
Organization
Curriculum
Out of School Education
Climate and Ethos
Evaluation of Activities
Quality Assurance Arrangements
Accountability
Management Style and Evaluation
Structural Arrangements
Mobility
The Permeation of Administrative Systems
Concern of Economy, Environment, and Culture
Administration
Technology
Trends
External Accountability
Research-Led Environments
Climates and Ethos
SOCIAL
AND CULTURAL ISSUES OF EDUCATION
Social and Cultural Issues in Education
Humanization of Education
Nature and Main Goals of Social and Cultural Aspects of
Education
Social Aspect: Subject Matter of Education
Cultural Aspect
Ecology of Culture
Definition of Concept
Types of Social and Cultural Education
System of Social and Cultural Education
School
University
Informal Education
Projects and Programs
Policy in the Field of Social and Cultural Education
Social Policy
Cultural Policy
Trends of Development of Social-Cultural Education
KNOWLEDGE
FOR EDUCATION
Cognitive Model of Hypothetical Biorealism
Postulations and Principles of Cognitive Model of
Hypothetical Biorealism --Functions
The Paradoxes of Lorenz. The Retrospective Character and
Predictive Power of Knowledge
The Lorenz Biosystems Mode of
Development
Acquisition of "Current, Not Accumulated,
Information"
Methods of Cognition in "Non-Statistical" Situations
Bio-Information Massives and the
Factor of Causality in the Process of Education
Peculiarities of Transformation and Dissemination of
Knowledge in a Sociocultural -Environment
The Cognitive Model of Hypothetical Biorealism
and Contemporary Concepts of Education
Concepts of "Surroundings" and "Alienation of
Knowledge" in Education
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