IDEOLOGY, NEOLIBERALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Shades of Red and Blue: Political Ideology and Sustainable Development

We study the effect of political ideology on sustainable development, measured as investment in genuine wealth, in a dynamic panel of 79 countries between 1981 and 2013. We find that a switch from a left-wing or centrist government to a right-wing government has a robust positive and statistically significant effect on investment in genuine wealth. We find no evidence of opportunistic cycles in...

islamic ideology , sustainable development & iranian desert cities

examining historical urban fabric of iranian desert cities demonstrates that one of the best response to the natural laws in the establishment of an appropriate built environment for human life, was considered in these settlement principles applied to the establishment of these cities not only did not impose disturbance and damages to the environment but have also granted perfection to matters....

Science, ideology and development:

The reasons why we as scholars prefer one paradigm to another are not only scientific but also ideological. It is suggested that pluralism should be discussed at the levels of theory of science, paradigms in economics and ideological orientations. Neoclassical economics is closely connected with logical positivism as a theory of science and is close to Neo-liberalism as an ideological orientati...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development