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The fundamental human needs of Max-Neef form the basis of this alternative development system. Unlike Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which focuses on a hierarchy of psychological needs, Max-Neef talks about needs that are complementary, all of which are necessary to achieve satisfaction. This proposal for an improved development system can ...
Artur Manfred Max Neef (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɱfɾeð maks]; 26 October 1932 – 8 August 2019) was a Chilean economist of German descent. Max-Neef was born in Valparaíso , Chile . He started his career as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s.
Manfred Max-Neef's Fundamental human needs, Manfred Max-Neef's model; Functional prerequisites; Human givens, a theory in psychotherapy that offers descriptions of the nature, needs, and innate attributes of humans; Need theory, David McClelland's model; Positive disintegration; Self-determination theory, Edward L. Deci's and Richard Ryan's model
The Natural Step differs between fundamental human needs and their satisfiers (Manfred Max-Neef) and between real needs and created desires. The Natural Step believes the root causes for unsustainability should be taken into account when designing for sustainable solutions and satisfaction of fundamental needs.
Maslow's approach is a generalised model for understanding human motivations in a wide variety of contexts but must be adapted for specific contexts. While intuitively appealing, Maslow's model has been difficult to operationalize experimentally. [citation needed] It was developed further by Clayton Alderfer.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse [34] contrasts "capacitation" or human development, as proposed by alternative or autonomous (aka self-development) theorists – (such as e.g. Korten, 1990; Max-Neef, 1991; Rahman, 1993 and Carmen, 1996), – with "development-as -economic growth" theorists for whom, according to Pieterse, capital accumulation is the ...
"for his early inspiration of the movement for a human scale." Amory Lovins (b 1947) United States "for pioneering soft energy paths for global security." Hunter Sheldon-Lovins (b. 1950) Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Manfred Max-Neef (1932–2019) Chile "for revitalising small and medium-sized communities through 'Barefoot Economics'."
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