Scientific Research and Social Goals: Towards a New Development Model is designed to contribute to the task of producing a development model, based on human needs, social goals, and the value of research. The book is organized into three sections: concepts and philosophy; methodological approaches; and practicalprograms in different parts of the world. These sections consist of a total of 19 chapters that discuss topics on national policy implications of the basic needs model; scientific progress and the social goals of science; an International Program on research and human needs; and the role of methodology in the research and human needs program. The contribution of research to human needs and an action program on research and human needs are also described.

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile. The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mode of nature appropriation that captures large amounts of natural resources to produce wooden-based raw materials with little processing and an export-oriented focus. The book discusses the nexus of extractivism, territorial transformations, well-being, and emerging resistances using a participatory action research methodological approach in the Region of Los Ríos, southern Chile. The findings show how the configuration of an extractivist logging enclave generated a substantial and irrevocable reordering of human-nature relations, resulting in the territorial and ontological occupation of rural places that disrupted the fundamental human needs of peasants and indigenous people. The book maintains that Chile's green growth development approach does not challenge the consolidated tree plantation enclave controlled by large multinationals. Instead, green growth legitimises the extractivist logic. The book draws parallels with other countries and regions to contribute to wider debates surrounding these topics. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, development studies, political ecology, and natural resource governance.

Este libro es el producto de una reflexión colectiva de profesionales de varios países en torno a problemas de desarrollo y crecimiento que tuvo una duración de 18 meses. A partir de este intercambio de ideas se ofrece al lector una alternativa posible, que reoriente el desarrollo, teniendo por eje central el promover un desarrollo a escala humana.

A través de un diálogo interdisciplinario, los autores de este libro muestran su compromiso con la visión humanista de la economía, la cual refleja la inquietud y el entusiasmo por promover, desde la región latinoamericana, propuestas concretas. la heterogeneidad social, política y económica latinoamericana supone que muchas veces su pensamiento económico, aunque existente y potencialmente innovador, no pasa de formar parte de un conjunto de iniciativas improvisadas y desconectadas. Este libro está enfocado en la propuesta de algunas medidas precisas Para comenzar a estructurar las bases de un pensamiento político y económico a la medida de las necesidades de una América Latina que debe enfrentar, en algún momento, la responsabilidad de pensar e imaginar su futuro.

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