Sustainability and Well-Being: The Middle Path to Environment, Society, and the Economy

Asoka Bandarage provides an integrated analysis of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being by investigating them as interconnected phenomena requiring a paradigmatic psychosocial transformation. She presents an incisive social science analysis and an alternative philosophical perspective on the needed transition from a worldview of domination to one of partnership. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Environment, Society, and the Economy....Pages 1-10 Environmental, Social, and Economic Collapse....Pages 11-32 Evolution of the Domination Paradigm....Pages 33-51 Ecological and Social Justice Movements....Pages 52-71 Ethical Path to Sustainability and Well-Being....Pages 72-88 Back Matter....Pages 89-114