Buen Vivir As an Alternative to Sustainable Development : Lessons from Ecuador

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Latin America at a crossroads -- Ecuador and Buen Vivir -- Reading this book -- References -- Part I -- Chapter 1 A brief history of development and Sustainable Development -- Underdevelopment and the myth of progress -- The failure of development and the path to alternatives -- Sustaining growth: The emergence of Sustainable Development, critiques, and limits -- The unsustainability of Sustainable Development: Why we need an "alternative to development" -- References -- Chapter 2 Towards an alternative to development: The growing legitimacy of post-development -- Post-development in Latin America -- In the search for "alternatives to development" -- Ending the age of extractivism -- "A Latin America paradox": A very brief history of extractivism in Latin America -- The Birth of neoextractivism: The progressive politics paradox -- Buen Vivir: A path towards Socio-Eco Wellbeing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Sustaining the "Good Life": Buen Vivir as an alternative to Sustainable Development -- Indigenous origins to political discourse -- A plural alternative to Sustainable Development -- Buen Vivir: Equal aims, contested definitions -- A grassroots solution to wellbeing and sustainability? -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Chapter 4 Understandings of Buen Vivir in Ecuador's Cotacachi County -- What does Buen Vivir entail? -- A Grassroots perspective of needs -- Materialism, economy, and Buen Vivir -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Living Well and Buen Vivir: Practice vs. policy? -- Vivir Bien: A look at Buen Vivir in practice -- The importance of plurality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Challenging the Good Life -- The extractivism dilemma -- Socio-Eco Wellbeing for the Good Life.