| Title: |
Strengthening Tradition, Innovating: Peasant contributions to technological innovation for sustainability |
| Authors: |
David Barkin; Mario Fuente C; Mara Rosas B |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://www.ub.edu/medame/Strengthening Tradition, Innovating_ Peasant contributions to technological innovation for sustainability.pdf. |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Description: |
We face an important challenge in collaborating with communities to use state of the art science and technology that will also permit them to use their own capabilities and knowledge as part of a process to strengthen their communities on many different levels: political, social, productive, cultural and environmental. As social scientists, we join this effort from the paradigm of Ecological Economics (Barkin y Rosas, 2006; Burkett, 2006), a heterodox advance guided by three ethical principles: intergenerational equity, social justice, and sustainability. Its implementation requires methodological innovations that assure consideration of solutions to the aforementioned challenges in an interdisciplinary way, with a pluralistic approach, and with a historical perspective that takes into account cultural, material and environmental heritages. An integral part of this method is the incorporation of the “Precautionary Principle ” that privileges productive processes that avoid social and environmental risk in contrast with orthodox systems that try to measure the relation between benefits and costs, selecting those results with the highest |
| Document Type: |
text |
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application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.6714; http://www.ub.edu/medame/Strengthening Tradition, Innovating_ Peasant contributions to technological innovation for sustainability.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.6714; http://www.ub.edu/medame/Strengthening Tradition, Innovating_ Peasant contributions to technological innovation for sustainability.pdf |
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| Accession Number: |
edsbas.AB62F58 |
| Database: |
BASE |