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  1. Asking The Earth
    The Spread of Unsustainable Development

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
  2. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
  3. Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
    Resource Type: Article
    Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
  4. Banking on the Grass Roots
    Cooperatives in global development

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  5. Beyond Brundtland
    Green Development in the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  6. Beyond Interdependence
    The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  7. Canadian Feed The Children
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  13. CHF
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
  15. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  16. Civil Society in Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
  17. Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
    A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
  18. Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
  19. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  20. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  21. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  22. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  23. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  24. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  25. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  26. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
  27. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  28. Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
  29. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  30. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  31. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  33. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  34. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  35. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  36. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
  37. Development debacle
    The World Bank in the Philippines

    Resource Type: Book
    Reveals the bureaucratic blunders and misguided assumptions behind the World Bank's model for third world development, a model that serves the interests of the US and the multinational corporations.
  38. Development Issues Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to international development in the Sources directory for the media.
  39. Dialogue on Development
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
  40. Downeast
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A foreign entrepreneur's plan to rehire employees from a closed down factory and reopen the plant for local lobster processing is met with resistance by obstinate fishermen, suspiscious of outsiders.
  41. Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  42. Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
    People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  43. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  44. Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  45. Green Technologies for Development
    Transfer, Trade and Cooperation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  46. Growing Numbers and Dwindling Resources
    Resource Type: Book
    The world's population growth strains natural resources especially when consumption levels are high and technology is widely used.
  47. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
  48. Here to Stay
    A Resource Kit on Environmentally Stable Development

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
  49. In the Name of Progress
    The Underside of Foreign Aid

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  50. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  51. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  52. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
  53. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  54. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  55. One Hundred Innovations for Development
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
  56. Open Veins of Latin America
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
  57. People, Resources and Power
    Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    This book is about resources and the reasons why the working people of the Atlantic region have derived so little benefit from the natural wealth which surrounds them.
  58. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
  59. Prepared evidence for the case of the Committee for Justice and Liberty
    before the National Energy Board's hearings on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    Various materials to be presented to the NEB's hearings opposing further pipeline development.
  60. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
  61. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
  62. So Much Aid, So Little Development
    Stories from Pakistan

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An explanation of why so much international aid gets "wasted", with a focus on Pakistan.
  63. Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    "Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
  64. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
  65. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  66. Underdevelopment in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A collection of articles analyzing underdevelopment in Canada in historical and economic terms.
  67. The Wealthy Banker's Wife
    The Assault on Equality in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  68. What Development Is All About: China, Indonesia, Bangladesh
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  69. Working Towards Appropriate Development - Report of the Second Eastern Ontario Workshop on Rual Development
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    With the impending termination of their funding the Council on Rural Development Canada put together a second workshop for the people of the Eastern Ontario Planning Region in an attempt to consolidate contributions made by a previous workshop a year earlier.
  70. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.

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