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The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies :selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'Alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979.

Title: The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies :selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'Alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979./ edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.

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Description

xxiii, 344 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

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"Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- Why the concern with ways of life? / Johan Galtung, Dag Polsezynski, and Monica Wemegah -- The 'abundant society' and world order / Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet -- The dominant way of life in Switzerland / Monica Wemegah -- The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles -- On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej Siciński -- Alternative ways of life in the Netherlands / Anneke Schipper-van Otterloo and Peter Ester -- Alternative ways of life in Denmark / Jens Falkentorp ... [et al.] -- From things to experiences / Hidetoshi Kato -- Another development for Europe in the 1980s / Richard Jolly -- Establishing alternative ways of life / Ian Miles and John Irvine.

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JLD 83-3194

ISBN

0080289061
008027935X (pbk.)

LCCN

81017779

OCLC

59065930
NYPG83-B47806

Title

The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies :selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'Alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979./ edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Miles, Ian.

Irvine, John, active 1979-

United Nations University.

Society for International Development.

Research Call Number

JLD 83-3194

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