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Towards Sustainable Local Development

In: From Alleviation to Empowerment Ruminations on Poverty, Capitalism, and Communities

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  • Gerardo Rivera Ungson
  • Sixto K. Roxas

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Sustainability is generally interpreted to ensure that future generations are able to meet their needs and not harmed, impaired, or disadvantaged by actions taken at the current time. Hence, “sustainability” has been broadly applied to redress climate change, ecological degradation, poverty, and even governance. Sustainability has been embraced by enterprises, governments, institutions (United Nations), nongovernmental organizations, social activists, and entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, sustainability based on current conventions can be limited when applied to communities. We argue that a community is not just a collectivity bounded by shared beliefs but includes a more expansive habitat, covering the broader jurisdiction of villages and its surrounding natural environment…

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  • Gerardo Rivera Ungson & Sixto K. Roxas, 2026. "Towards Sustainable Local Development," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: From Alleviation to Empowerment Ruminations on Poverty, Capitalism, and Communities, chapter 10, pages 229-252, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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