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    Scaling Up Developmental Principles of Small Intentional
    (2011-05-23) Morgan, Njogu
    The purpose of the research was twofold: i) to explore the relevance of the ecovillage model as viable policy intervention for human development and environmental protection in poor countries, and ii) to explore how the principles and practices of ecovillages might be applied. To answer this question, the research examined how ecovillages manage the nexus between human development and environment protection. It was concluded that while the principles and practices of ecovillages are worthy of emulation and can be applied in the global South, adaptation or spread is only possible with significant external support. This is because a range of enabling socioeconomic conditions necessary to cushion what are effectively islands of social change experimentation, exist more readily in the global North than they do in the South. A broader lesson extrapolated from the research is that if countries in the global South wish to avert or at least mitigate ongoing and future environmental crisis into the foreseeable future, they will have to review their development models. Ecovillages cannot on their own resolve what is a global systemic crisis. Successfully dealing with climate change will therefore require going to the root cause and adopting new development pathways. The research explored these issues by examining the literature and conducting primary research in the Ivory Park Ecovillage in South Africa and the Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland.