Life Region

This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the world, and the introduction of self-reliant civic strategies in national and international politics. I: The Perspective; Introduction; A Global Paradigm; The Ecological Imperative; A Theory of Social Ecology; The Sustainable Region; II: Region and Territory; Regional Development in the New Europe; Region, Territory and Identity; The Forces of the Social Life-Space; The Ecological Life-Region; Life-Region Västernorrland; III: Region and Culture; Culture and Regional Identity; The Avant - Garde: A Door to the Cosmos; Mass Culture Meets Man; The Culture of Nature; Mobilizing Regional Culture; A Cultural Retrospective of Västernorrland; Local Culture in Örnsköldsvik; Mosaic; The Role of Global Culture in Västernorrland; Para-Museum Y; Cultural Renewal and the Regional Landscape; Eco-Museum Västernorrland; IV: Region and Community; Social Life and the Living Region; Grass-Roots in the New Age; The Eco-School in Härnösand; Gullänget Town-Neighbourhood; Megamedia Centre Bothnia; Public Health Is Social Welfare; V: Epilogue; Summary; Economy in the Viable Region; The Science of Social Ecology