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The ecological approach to economic development. To discuss this question effectively I will first describe the dominant ideology before moving on to discuss the ecological critique of economic development and whether it provides an viable alternative viewpoint or is simply a fashionable but irrelevant set of theories. One of the first problems encountered in a discussion of this nature is one of terminology, because it can be seen that economic development/progress and growth do not always have agreed meanings nor are they necessarily synoymous. Gavin Kitching provides us with one answer when he states the position of economists such as David Ricardo and Adam Smith - 'For these thinkers, economic growth occurred in society if the volume and value of output or production in that society rose quickly and continuously'. However, other thinkers such as Sismondi believed that increased production in itself did not constitute progress unless it was accompanied by...

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