Land of Shadows: challenges of sustainability and regional and local development before globalization

Abstract

After placing himself as 'politically correct' by discussing globalization, the author of this essay argues that proponents of globalization resemble the ferocity and the dogmatism of the Christian globalizing of the early thousand’s. He claims that globalization is a land of shadows that positions itself after a brief self-deception of abundance, and that we are awakening from the developmental spree. For thus the need to incorporate an ecological framework in our economic and political decisions, and a strategy of territorial and local levels. This leads him to review the agenda of development and its structural challenges. He concludes presenting an ethical foundation necessary to build the paradigm of sustainability.