The most radical vision came from Brazil's panel, which saw present patterns of development as tantamount to developing a "plan of death" for the planet.
Brook establishes similar patterns of development, from the eighteenth century to the present day, in St .Petersburg, Shanghai, and Bombay.
An example can be seen in the patterns of development of the different elephant species.
"I don't think the patterns of development would be a heck of a lot different if we abolished each and every subsidy," Mr. Hughes said.
Puerto Rican lifestyles have changed rapidly as new technologies, economic opportunities, and patterns of development have emerged.
Worries about terrorism don't help, but among advanced industrial nations the United States should prove unusually resilient in this department, thanks in part to suburban patterns of development and the distributed nature of economic activity.
In New York, and in cities like Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, railways begat reachable and desirable suburbs, so that, by the time the automobile came along, patterns of development, and a calculus of class and status, had already been established.
"Depending on where the threshold is set and who sets it, we can either promote and encourage appropriate patterns of development or make that harder," Mr. Marks said in an interview.
Here, despite differences in agriculture due to different climates and types of soil, certain patterns of development occurred within the peninsula.
Neoevolutionism, school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.
