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For the diagnosis and prognosis of the problems of quality of life, a multidisciplinary ecosystemic approach encompasses four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as donors and recipients: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Social, cultural and environmental vulnerabilities are understood and dealt with, in different circumstances of space and time, as the conjugated effect of all…
What is poverty? Is it a phenomenon that can be observed and studied without questioning the paradigms of development, growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded in the current cultural, social, political and economic institutions? Is poverty a syndrome or a separate phenomenon, a set of isolated phenomena? Poverty, wealth, education, culture, environment and freedom: an ecosystem…
In view of the overwhelming pressures on the global environment and the need to disrupt the systems that drive them, an ecosystemic theoretical and practical framework is posited for the evaluation and planning of public policies, research and teaching programmes, encompassing four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine, as donors and…