The phrase "alternatives to developments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different options or solutions that can replace or serve as substitutes for certain developments or advancements.
Example: "In our research, we explored various alternatives to developments in renewable energy technology."
Alternatives: "substitutes for advancements" or "options instead of progress".
Morales adopted discourses derived from popularly supported Buen Vivir, alternatives to development, social and solidarity economies, and other forms of localized political and economic autonomy, creating a politics of possibility around such proposals.
The paper reveals how the current scenario creates new barriers for the social movements that continue to uphold proposals for sustainable futures, including deepened structural entrenchment in extractivism, the cooptation of alternatives to development proposals by government, the division of once-unified popular fronts, shifting electoral constituencies, and the emergence of new economic elites.
I urge Los Angeles officials look at all the "suitable city-owned sites" the letter writer has discovered — not as an alternative to development of the Metro bus lot in Venice as a temporary shelter, but as additional candidates for the development of supportive housing.
But what are the promising alternatives to mainstream developments?
Lessons from the Bolivian case are significant for guiding wider efforts at building sustainable alternatives to capitalist development.
New York's neighborhood organizations, business community and private investors will need to work with both the city and the state on creative alternatives to traditional development if we're going to keep this city affordable for all income levels.
Depletion of natural resources has become a major concern in today's modern industrialized world centering much attention on sustainability of the built environment and sustainable alternatives to current development and construction practices.
Rutin-loaded nanostructures represent alternatives to the development of innovative nanomedicines.
This approach fills gaps in existing communities and plays a critical role in achieving community revitalization, resource and land conservation, and alternatives to sprawl development.
Put into practice, these approaches can then be scaled up to provide viable alternatives to unsustainable development activities.
