NAFTA North America Free Trade Agreement
neomodernism In the context of this writing, both a condition and an atti-
tude whereby monetized growth, industrial production,
and consumer expansion (all modernist) are redirected
toward social and resource sustainability, wherein utility
of the resource base to support future populations is not
compromised. ‘Modernism’ is of the consume-and-
discard present. ‘Neomodernism’ invokes a future which
extols societal fairness, environmentally balanced
resource utilization, and economic harmonization. In this
text neomodernism equates with sustainability. Most
writing on neo(post)modernism is complex, and is
seldom centred on sustainable pragmatics.
New World For the purpose of this book, the reoccupied and resettled
former frontier lands; with a particular association to the
transpacific English-languaged Anglo-cultured settler
society nations of the United States, Australia, Canada
and New Zealand, cited in the text as the Anglo settler
societies.
Northern Nations The ‘Rich Northern Nations’ club which includes Canada,
United States, Australia and New Zealand, for whom the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop-
ment (OECD) predicates economic growth and employ-
ment and an ever rising standard of living.
planning Public forethought and conscious involvement preceding
the pursuit of community-determined action; achieving
social goals for the common good in both the public and
private domain. Carter (1993) holds ‘the core definition of
planning [to be an] ability to manipulate form and place’.
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preservation Additional to ‘conservation’: mothballing natural and
heritage resources on account of their perceived societal
significance.
settler societies The mostly Euro-settled societies of the Anglo New
World, incorporating the indigenous first peoples of those
lands along with other subsequent incomers from Africa
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