Thus the depressed regions have an analogy in the local 
ecological catastrophes such as the "death" of a river 
or a lake. Again, the new cottage industries of 
Charles Sable ( 1982) and the rural industrialisation 
of central Italy which represent alternatives to the 
concentrated large scale industry of the big concerns 
are closely related to the "alternative technologies" 
desired by ecologists. There is a common element of 
dissatisfaction and criticism of existing institutions 
which unites the environmentalists and those who are 
concerned with unemployment. 
It appears that thinking about stagnation is not a closed 
chapter of the history of doctrines but is actually 
very much in a state of flux. 
Josef Steindl