TOWARD A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF DEVELOPMENT IN FACE OF GLOBAL WARMING
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The terms ‘development’, ‘developing countries’, and ‘developed countries’ are often used, but not well defined. The most important definitions are arbitrary. The paper intends to review some variants of the terms, attached to underlying theories and concepts of development. After many decades of development, it is clear that most theories did not properly foresee the factual development that has taken place. Although the problem of scarcity of exhaustible natural resources is known since long, the challenge of the climate crisis has not been sufficiently integrated in the understanding of development. Given that today two thirds of global emissions originate from the ‘Global South’, battling global heating depends on taking responsibility of all countries in the North and in the South. De-development is a great risk for many developing and emerging economies and the entire planet. The paper sketches a proposal for a new understanding of development, based on the green growth concept.
HACIA UNA NUEVA COMPRENSIÓN DEL DESARROLLO ANTE EL CALENTAMIENTO GLOBAL
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Los términos “desarrollo”, “países en desarrollo” y “países desarrollados” se usan con frecuencia, pero no bien definidos. Las definiciones más importantes son arbitrarias. El artículo intenta revisar algunas variantes de estos términos, vinculados a teorías y conceptos de desarrollo subyacentes. Después de varias décadas de desarrollo, es claro que la mayoría de las teorías no previeron adecuadamente el desarrollo que de facto ha tenido verificativo. Aunque el problema de la escasez de los recursos naturales no renovables se conoce desde hace tiempo, el desafío de la crisis climática no se ha integrado de manera suficiente en la comprensión del desarrollo. Dado que hoy dos tercios de las emisiones globales se originan en el “Sur Global”, el combate al calentamiento global depende de que todos los países del Norte y del Sur tomen su responsabilidad. El de-desarrollo es un gran riesgo para muchas economías en desarrollo y emergentes y para el planeta entero. El artículo bosqueja una propuesta para una nueva comprensión del desarrollo, basada en el concepto de crecimiento verde.
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