Chapter 1
The Brave New Frontierof Sustainability:Where are We?
INTRODUCTION
It is often said that ‘development’ as envisioned today is largely a post-Second World War phenomenon that has moved, not necessarily progressed, through various forms and fashions. The 1950s and 1960s were the days of grand development theories all applied at the macro-scale (country, region). The Green Revolution in Asia is such an example based on modernization theory. The grand theories became less fashionable in the 1970s, and the 1980s and 1990s were the age of the ‘micro-intervention’ in development. The boundaries of state intervention and control were rolled ...
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