Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1 1. The Brief History of Development and Sustainable Development 2. Towards an Alternative to Development: The Growing Legitimacy of Post-Development 3. Sustaining the ‘Good Life’: Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development Part 2 4. Understandings of Buen Vivir in Ecuador’s Cotacachi Canton 5. Living Well and Buen Vivir: Practice vs. Policy? 6. Challenging the Good Life 7. Rethinking Sustainability: Making the Global Align with the Local 8. Implementing Buen Vivir: The Practical Pathway to Transformation 9. New Horizons for Socio-Eco Wellbeing: Concluding Remarks

About the Author

Natasha Chassagne is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Social Impact, Australia. Natasha’s doctoral research looked at the viability of Buen Vivir as an alternative to Sustainable Development. Natasha is a political scientist by training in international law and international relations, specialising in human rights and environmental law. She has worked as a Sustainability Consultant, and writes and researches on sustainability, wellbeing, and climate change issues.