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The Start of A New Human Life: Maximizing Well-Being in the Trade-Off Between Economic Wealth and Spiritual Richness - or - What Can South Teach North About Raising A Kid?

机译：新人类生活的开始：在经济财富和精神财富之间的权衡中最大程度地提高幸福感-或-南方教北方如何养育孩子？

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The prologue. Establishes my perspective as a Southern migrant from Ecuador to the U.S. and the resultant ability to view both cultures through a distant and inquiring lens. I also lay on the table some important aspects of my own world view that have guided me throughout the Ph.D. program and my dissertation work.;Chapter one. This introductory chapter forms the basis for a unified approach to economic and ecological systems by establishing the relationship between energy, power, money and the contrast between physical and spiritual uses of power. This is done principally by analyzing why both economics and ecology, as disciplines, have rarely focused on the use of power in child-raising, despite the fact that this must be a key use---perhaps THE key use---of power in both disciplines. The significance of the use of power in starting a new human life is presented and leads to the question of what a sustainable use of power might mean.;Chapter two. This chapter builds on fundamental features of living systems---growth and self-regulation---to suggest that the language and concept of sustainability might be over-general and best avoided. By looking at cycles of growth, complexity, collapse and regeneration, I come to the conclusion that maximizing individual fulfillment---in both a physical/economic and spiritual sense, recognizing that these are often in conflict---might be the best way of understanding and striving for sustainability.;Chapter three. Here I present my view of how economic and ecological approaches to understanding human-environment interactions should be considered part and parcel of the same discipline. I build on the work of four authors---James Baldwin, Carl Sauer, Michael Pollan and Gerrat Vermeij---to elaborate "Seven Simple Truths" that encapsulate my understanding of how energy cycles through economic/ecological systems, and how physical and spiritual types of energy can be in competition. This chapter brings forth what I believe are the two intellectually original contributions---theoretically---that my dissertation will provide. The first is an attempt to de-mystify what "spiritual energy or power" might actually be or how it might be represented, which is the principal topic for Chapter Four. The second is a mathematical framework for analyzing scaling data from the perspective of maximizing fulfillment.;Chapter four. In this chapter, I build on the fundamental physical relationship between power, energy and time to establish a mathematical "power use" space. In this space, human metabolic power use is separated (on low-sloped lines) from human extra-metabolic power use (which is found on steeper-sloped lines). This power use space opens the question of how different aspects of child-raising scale with power use.;Chapter five. This chapter serves as a critique of traditional measures of population performance, such as GDP. I review what other alternative measures are available and look at how these metrics relate to my own perception of sustainability developed in Chapter Two.;Chapter six. Building on the work of Vermeij (2004) and Moses and Brown (2003), I argue strongly for the primacy of scale in determining how power use can be maximized. I present Moses and Brown's analysis of how fertility rates among mammals, including humans, scales with power use. I then put forth the question of where maximal fulfillment might lie on a given scaling relationship, using Moses and Brown's example, as well as another example from food provisioning and diet. Finally, I return to Vermeij's five aspects of scaling that should be analyzed in understanding the performance, or power use cycling, for living systems as a place to launch the next section of my dissertation, which will analyze populational and individual power use data related to child-raising.;The second half of the work presents my data on child-raising practice's comparing experiences in Ibarra, Ecuador and Prescott, Arizona. Data come from the government-run pre-school centers in these cities and include anecdotal data obtained from interviews with families, along with quantitative, scalable data from the centers' standard intake and evaluation forms. The Ibarra and Prescott data are compared with the massive, comprehensive, longitudinal study of child-raising in England, the Millennium Cohort Study (see Appendix One for details on data sources). Where appropriate, I also compare my finding with world-level statistics from various organizations.;Chapters 7-9. These chapters are each dedicated to presenting data results and analyses from a particular stage of child-raising (Chapter 7 is Pregnancy and Birth; Chapter 8 is Infancy and Toddlerhood; Chapter 9 is Early Childhood). My results show that parents, especially in Northern countries, believe they take rational decisions about child-raising practice from a full range of possibilities. However, in reality, their choices are constrained by the power-level, or income bracket within which they conduct their lives. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
机译：序言。确立了我作为从厄瓜多尔到美国的南方移民的观点，并确立了通过遥远而富于探索性的视角观察两种文化的能力。我还把自己世界观的一些重要方面放在桌子上，这些方面指导了我整个博士学位。程序和我的论文工作。；第一章。本介绍性章节通过建立能量，功率，金钱与权力的物质和精神用途之间的对比，为经济和生态系统统一方法奠定了基础。这主要是通过分析为什么经济学和生态学这两个学科作为学科很少将重点放在养育子女方面，尽管事实上这必须是权力的关键用途（也许是关键用途）在两个学科。提出了使用权力在开始新的人类生活中的重要性，并提出了可持续使用权力可能意味着什么的问题。第二章。本章以生命系统的基本特征为基础-增长和自我调节-提出可持续性的语言和概念可能过于笼统，最好避免。通过查看增长，复杂性，崩溃和更新的周期，我得出的结论是，从物理/经济和精神的角度，最大化个人的满足感-认识到这些常常是冲突的-可能是最好的方法了解和争取可持续性。；第三章。在这里，我提出我的观点，即如何将经济和生态学方法理解人与环境之间的相互作用视为同一学科的组成部分。我以四位作者（詹姆斯·鲍德温，卡尔·绍尔，迈克尔·波伦和杰拉特·韦尔梅伊）的工作为基础，阐述了“七个简单的真理”，它们概括了我对能源如何通过经济/生态系统循环以及如何物理和物理的理解。精神类型的能量可以竞争。本章提出了我认为是我的论文将提供的两个理论上独创的理论依据。首先是试图弄清楚“精神能量或力量”实际上可能是什么或如何表示，这是第四章的主要主题。第二个是从最大化实现的角度分析规模数据的数学框架。第四章。在本章中，我将基于功率，能量和时间之间的基本物理关系建立数学的“功率使用”空间。在这个空间中，人类的代谢电力使用量（在低坡度线上）与人类代谢以外的电力使用量（在较陡峭的坡度线上）是分开的。这种用电空间提出了一个问题，即用电如何提高儿童的成长规模。第五章。本章对传统的人口绩效指标（例如GDP）进行了评论。我回顾了其他可用的替代措施，并探讨了这些指标与我自己在第二章中提出的对可持续性的看法之间的关系。第六章。在Vermeij（2004）和Moses和Brown（2003）的工作的基础上，我强烈主张规模决定如何最大程度地利用电力的首要条件。我介绍了摩西和布朗的分析，其中包括人类在内的哺乳动物之间的生育率如何随电力使用而变化。然后，我用摩西和布朗的例子，以及从食物供应和饮食中得到的另一个例子，提出在给定的比例关系上最大满足可能在哪里的问题。最后，我回到Vermeij的五个方面的扩展，应在理解生活系统的性能或用电循环方面进行分析，以此作为展开本文下一部分的地方，这将分析与以下方面有关的人口和个人用电数据：第二部分的工作介绍了我在厄瓜多尔伊巴拉和亚利桑那州普雷斯科特的儿童养育实践比较经验的数据。数据来自这些城市中政府运营的学前中心，包括从与家人的访谈中获得的轶事数据，以及来自中心标准入学和评估表的定量，可扩展数据。将伊瓦拉（Ibarra）和普雷斯科特（Prescott）的数据与英格兰大规模，全面，纵向的儿童抚养研究，千年队列研究（有关数据源的详细信息，请参阅附录一）进行比较。在适当的情况下，我还将我的发现与来自各个组织的世界级统计数据进行比较。；第7-9章。这些章节分别致力于呈现数据结果和对儿童成长的特定阶段的分析（第7章为怀孕和出生；第8章为婴儿和幼儿；第9章为幼儿）。我的结果表明，父母，尤其是在北方国家，相信他们会从各种各样的可能性中就养育孩子的行为做出合理的决定。但是，实际上，他们的选择受到功率级别的限制，或他们生活的收入等级。 （摘要由UMI缩短。）。

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  • 作者

    Guevara, Esmeralda.;

  • 作者单位

    Prescott College.;

  • 授予单位 Prescott College.;
  • 学科 Environmental economics.;Environmental science.;Environmental education.;Individual family studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 199 p.
  • 总页数 199
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:45:29

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