Werner Hennings
Globalisierung, Monetarisierung und Nachhaltigkeit Beobachtungen zu aktuellen Trends in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Umwelt Samoas
Pages 231 – 247

Globalization, monetarization and sustainability. Observations on actual trends in economy, society and environment of Samoa. Samoa so far has had an intact subsistence-production based on an economy and society in balance with the ecological system. Theoretically founded on the grounds of the entropy-law and methodologically implemented by a set of tested sustainabilityindicators this paper maintains the thesis that the integration of the Samoan economy with recently high GDP-growth rates has led the system to an abrupt increase of entropy, driving back subsistence production, transforming land tenure to individualisation, threatening decentralisation and polluting the environment. Keywords: sustainability, entropy law, participating observation, economic growth, transformation/ecological imbalances, social and spatial disparities, fragmentation.


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