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Title: Through Western Eyes: Managing the Earth-System
Authors: Harman, Willis W.
Keywords: Sustainability
Non-sustainability
Eastern worldview
Western science
Environmental degradation
Economic growth
Technological advancement
Issue Date: Apr-1995
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
Series/Report no.: Vol. 1;No. 1
Abstract: This paper attempts to highlight the emergent threat posed by the Western materialistic worldview to a sustainable human civilization and draws a blueprint of ideas which can reverse this trend. In approaching this global problem from a whole-system perspective the author underlines the importance of the inseparability of environmental and other manmade problems facing humankind. He also ques tions some of the taken-for-granted assumptions of growth-based capitalism like competition, self- interest, progress and technological advance. Finally, the paper suggests that a shift in paradigm from the Western model of development to the more 'holistic' Eastern view is the need of the hour.close
Description: Willis W. Harman, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California.
p. 49 - 65
URI: https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/4979
https://doi.org/10.1177/097168589500100106
ISSN: 0971-6858 (print version)
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