Counter-development is a strategy and world-view advocated by

Helena Norberg-Hodge Helena Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of Local Futures, previously known as the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC). Local Futures is a non-profit organization "dedicated to the revitalization of cultural and biological ...

and the Indian organization Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG). In her book ''

Ancient Futures ''Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World'', originally published with the subtitle ''Learning From Ladakh'', is a book by Helena Norberg-Hodge. It was first published in 1991. Synopsis The first part of the book describes th ...

'', Helena Norberg-Hodge entails "traditional" ways of life employed by the people of Ladakh. A broad base of people need to adopt counter-development, to check and reverse the tide of environmental destruction, social fragmentation, and to the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of transnational corporations. The manifestation of counter-development in the first world would "...heal ourselves and the planet, we need to regain control of these levers egulation, Taxes and Subsidies, and Measures of Societal Well-beingthrough economic activism, underpinned by an understanding of the workings of globalization. If the multitude of social and environmental movements link hands to address a common agenda, sufficient pressure can be exerted to bring about meaningful policy change." Counter-development seeks return to rural communities which would be semi-

autarkic Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems. Autarky as an ideal or method has been embraced by a wide range of political ideologies and movements, especiall ...

, ecologically-sound and autonomous. Norberg-Hodge urges this restructuring as an answer to fundamental flaws and repercussion of the global economic system.

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