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Embodying the Monster:Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Embodying the Monster:Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Margrit Shildrick

(2001)

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Abstract

Exploring the ideas of bodily monstrosity; vulnerablity; normality; and perfection, this book examines the ideologies surrounding these perceptions and considers what this tells us about ourselves.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Acknowledgements
Glossary
1. Introduction
2. Reflections on poverty, environment, and development
A short history of environment and environmentalism
Theories of people-environment relations
Questions of vulnerability
Questions of sustainability
3. Improving livelihoods
Sustaining livelihoods and environments: lessons from practice
The sustainable livelihoods framework
Negotiating change
4. Project management and environmental sustainability
Environmental Impact Assessment: large-scale projects
Environmental Impact Assessment of community development projects
Projects, participation, and the sustainability of livelihoods
5. Policies and strategies for sustainable development
Planning for sustainable development
National policies and campaigns for sustainable development
Global environmental policy and campaigning
Appendix 1: Selected international agreements on the environment
Appendix 2: sources of information on environment and development
Notes
Bibliography
Index