GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Our Common Future, Kuznets Curve, United Nations Environment Programme
Document Summary
All approaches and theories still inform development thinking and practices, it is not a linear timeline. Development is both a process and a goal; both the processes and the details are contested. Structural adjustment programs of the 1980s (promoting free trade and a downsized government) Projects delivered by ngos and private corporations instead of (or together with) government. Features of neoliberalism: reduce direct influence of the state, belief that markets are the best way to regulate consumption and avoid scarcity, must value environmental goods and services (environmental commodities) Examples of policies: carbon offsets and markets. The policies don"t work (its been 20 years and development has actually gotten worse) Increased inequality globally; the most marginalized were the most affected by saps and other policies. Increased volatility for countries most connected to global economic flow (eg. asian tigers) Post-development or alternatives to development: development is a discourse (dominant set of ideas about how economies and societies evolve) that should be abandoned.
