Sufficiency Thinking

Author : Gayle C. Avery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000246605

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Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural practices are being swamped by global popular culture. The Thai model of sufficiency thinking aims to transform the mindset of a whole population to achieve the seemingly impossible: enriching everyone's lives in a truly sustainable way. Innovative management practices developed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand have been applied across Thailand in agriculture, education, business, government and community organisations for over two decades. In this book, chapters written by eminent Thai scholars explain sufficiency thinking and review its implementation in different sectors including community development, business, agriculture, health care, schools, and even in prisons. Is Thailand unique in having discovered the holy grail of a more responsible form of capitalism? No, it is not, but it is the first country whose government has adopted this kind of thinking as national policy. '...we obviously need to revise dramatically our thinking about the outlines of a just economy and a decent society in which everyone can lead dignified lives. Sufficiency Thinking provides creative approaches to this quandary and this important volume is a brilliant addition to the growing literature critical of mainstream business-as-usual ideology.' - John Komlos, Professor Emeritus, University of Munich

Author : Gayle Avery,Harald Bergsteiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1952533228

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Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural practices are being swamped by global popular culture. The Thai model of sufficiency thinking aims to transform the mindset of a whole population to achieve the seemingly impossible: enriching everyone's lives in a truly sustainable way. Innovative management practices developed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand have been applied across Thailand in agriculture, education, business, government and community organisations for over two decades. In this book, chapters written by eminent Thai scholars explain sufficiency thinking and review its implementation in different sectors including community development, business, agriculture, health care, schools, and even in prisons. Is Thailand unique in having discovered the holy grail of a more responsible form of capitalism? No, it is not, but it is the first country whose government has adopted this kind of thinking as national policy. ... we obviously need to revise dramatically our thinking about the outlines of a just economy and a decent society in which everyone can lead dignified lives. Sufficiency Thinking provides creative approaches to this quandary and this important volume is a brilliant addition to the growing literature critical of mainstream business-as-usual ideology. - John Komlos, Professor Emeritus, University of Munich.

Author : Gayle C. Avery,Harald Bergsteiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152522638X

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Sufficiency Thinking by Gayle C. Avery,Harald Bergsteiner Pdf

Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural practices are being swamped by global popular culture. The Thai model of sufficiency thinking aims to transform the mindset of a whole population to achieve the seemingly impossible: enriching everyone's lives in a truly sustainable way. Innovative management practices developed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand have been applied across Thailand in agriculture, education, business, government and community organisations for over two decades. In this book, chapters written by eminent Thai scholars explain sufficiency thinking and review its implementation in different sectors including community development, business, agriculture, health care, schools, and even in prisons. Is Thailand unique in having discovered the holy grail of a more responsible form of capitalism? No, it is not, but it is the first country whose government has adopted this kind of thinking as national policy. '...we obviously need to revise dramatically our thinking about the outlines of a just economy and a decent society in which everyone can lead dignified lives. Sufficiency Thinking provides creative approaches to this quandary and this important volume is a brilliant addition to the growing literature critical of mainstream business-as-usual ideology

Author : Maike Gossen,Laura Niessen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783839469101

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Sufficiency in Business by Maike Gossen,Laura Niessen Pdf

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting reduced resource consumption and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present real-life examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across diverse industries. These experts share their insights on sufficiency strategies in business, barriers and opportunities discovered, and the impact on customer behavioural change. They address the far-reaching changes in business, society, and policy required for this paradigm shift and suggest future research directions.

Author : Gayle Avery,Harald Bergsteiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1760292915

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Sufficiency Thinking by Gayle Avery,Harald Bergsteiner Pdf

The first systematic account of the powerful decision-making framework which is being applied across all areas of life in Thailand to build a fair, resilient and sustainable economy and society.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139447133

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Fichte: The System of Ethics by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the practical nature of self-consciousness, the relation between reason and volition, the essential role of the drives in human willing, the possibility of changing the natural world, the reality of one's own body, the reality of other human beings, and the practical necessity of social relations between human beings. This volume offers a translation of the work together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Author : Christine M. Koggel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429860638

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Examining Injustice by Christine M. Koggel Pdf

The past several decades have witnessed a surge in critiques of justice theory by gender, race, disability, post-colonial, non-Western, and other anti-oppression theorists. These theorists tend to reject ideal theory and instead engage in ‘theorizing’ that takes the details of people’s lives to be central to understanding and alleviating injustices. These theorists reveal injustices emerging from norms assumed in mainstream justice theory and uncover them to challenge liberal accounts of moral reasoning and responsibility rooted in individualist conceptions of the self. Instead, they defend a relational conception of selves as born into relationships and shaped by norms, institutions, and structures that determine needs, opportunities, and life prospects differently for different people and groups. Attention to real world circumstances of injustice reveals inequalities in power between developed and developing countries; former colonizers and those colonized within and across nations; and the powerful and marginalized/oppressed where racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and so on still prevail. This volume sets out to examine a range of injustices emerging from, and shaped by, histories and contexts of patriarchy, racism, colonialism, capitalism, and so on. These are the kinds of injustices that affect the lives and well-being of people at the global, national, and local levels. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Ethics and Social Welfare journal.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Theology
ISBN : IOWA:31858020002592

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine: The anti-Pelagian works, v. 3 by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : YALE:39002026282161

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The Anti-Pelagian Works of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Theology
ISBN : NYPL:33433087370932

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Theology
ISBN : OXFORD:N13283401

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo: The anti-Pelagian works, vol. 3 by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Theology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009725615

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Theology
ISBN : UCBK:C020228138

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine: The anti-Pelagian works. v. 3. Translated by Peter Holmes and R.E. Wallis. 1876 by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : LOC:00173324935

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The Role of Alternate Energy Resources in Promoting Island Self-sufficiency by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development Pdf

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262661904

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The Logic of Sufficiency by Thomas Princen Pdf

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption? Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges—at once global, technological, and commercial—require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles. In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point. With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational—personally, organizationally and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy—indeed a society—cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much.