Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy - Lessem, Ronnie; Abouleish, Ibrahim, 1937-; Pogacnik, Marko, 1944-; Herman, Louis, 1949- (Burlington : Gower Publishing, 2015)
About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Economic development -- Technological innovations; Business enterprises -- Technological innovations; Information technology -- Social aspects; Social change; Electronic books