GEOG 352: Day 18 Finishing Up Human Needs and Starting on the Leadership Issue

Housekeeping Items  Innovative Ways to Change the World Do you want to make a difference? Do you care about the world we live in? Join us to hear community crusader, author and founder of the Nyaka Aids Orphan Project: Jackson Kaguri. The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project is working on behalf of HIV/AIDS orphans in rural Uganda to end systemic deprivation, poverty and hunger through a holistic approach to community development, education, and healthcare. Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Time: 1 pm - 3 pm Location: Nanaimo Campus, Bldg 255, Room 170

See Mark Anielski’s The Economics of Happiness:

Housekeeping Items  Today I’d like to have a discussion of core human needs that we think are not culturally- specific, but that cut across cultures. And then how these can be distorted in different cultural contexts.  I’d also like to show you that short film on La Via Campesina.

Human Needs  What, in your assessment, constitute core human needs, keeping in mind the different models – for instance, Maslow’s and Max-Neef’s – or it the case, as many modern economists would argue, that needs are whatever the self-oriented utility- maximizing rational individuals deem as such?