Dehradun, Nov. 10 -- During the last five decades, there has been a paradigm change in international discourse on socio-economic development. While in the pre- Eighty era, the focus was on econocentric issues, simple economics of investment and outputs, the idea of sustainability in its wider dimensions alongside social and cultural environmental factors that got introduced in the development narrative. There has been a realization of importance of political factors in economic development.
Sustainability emerged as a compromise between Frontier Economics - an attitude of bash on regardless irrespective of environmental concerns and Deep Ecology - which professed an egalitarian approach where humans and all things sentient or insentient we...