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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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