Aaron Packard

Rethinking 'Progress'

An evaluation of the Wellington Regional Genuine Progress Index

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is widespread and long running discontent with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of progress for society. A number of alternative measures have been proposed, including the Genuine Progress Index (GPI). A GPI has been developed by local government in the Wellington region (New Zealand) to facilitate a rethinking of conventional notions of progress'. The Wellington Region GPI (WRGPI) is a pluralistic index consisting of environmental, social, economic and cultural indicators with either physical or monetary values. This study explores a good practice' approach to public participation in the development of the GPI, and provides an overview of the context within which it fits. It considers the institutional barriers to the implementation of the WRGPI and provides recommendations of how deliberative and social learning techniques could be used to increase the likelihood that conventional notions of 'progress' will be replaced with more holistic ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783843362856
• ISBN-10: 3843362858
• Artikelnr.: 32078827

Autorenporträt

Aaron recently completed a Masters in Environmental Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His interests lie in how society can move from being degenerative to planetary health, to being regenerative. Since graduating, Aaron has been working as the Pacific coordinator for the grassroots climate change organisation, 350.org.