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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459851903321

Autore

Lessem Ronnie

Titolo

Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / / by Ronnie Lessem with Ibrahim Abouleish, Marko Pogačnik and Louis Herman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington : , : Gower Publishing, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-317-11545-7

1-317-11544-9

1-4724-4248-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Transformation and innovation

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economic development - Technological innovations

Business enterprises - Technological innovations

Information technology - Social aspects

Social change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect :



integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century--and Integral Polity applies this notion to business, economics and enterprise. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease on life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt realm of the political.