Alternative Development Strategies and Appropriate Technology: Science Policy for an Equitable World Order

Abstract

Focus is on the world and its development. The books 1st part describes international world order as it exists at this time the international actors international relations and international resource constraints. The existing typology of the world is described in terms of development. The 2nd part of the book considers the development path that has been followed in both developed and developing countries. After independence and during the 1950s and 1960s most of the developing countries opted for what may be termed the Conventional Development Strategy (CDS). Although CDS has created a general awareness and some pockets of development on the whole the goal of development has been eluive. Attention in the books 3rd part is directed to Alternative Development Strategies (ADS). Basic objectives of ADS are reductions in and eventual elimination of poverty unemployment underemployment and income inequalities. Emphases are on the production of goods for basic needs of the poor by the people themselves; and on local initiatives resources and self-reliance rather than on gross national product growth. There are many variants of ADS. The science and technology most closely associated with ADS are best described as appropriate technology (AT). AT is by the people themselves; location specific holistic and future oriented. In the final part of the book policies consistent with ADS are derived and some policies for developed countries and international agencies are outlined.

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