ABSTRACT
One consequence of the changing conditions and influences in the Second and early part of the Third Development Decades has been the proliferation of different schools of thought about how national and regional development should be promoted. Broadly, four main approaches have emerged. The first new approach was 'redistribution through growth'; The second approach, which has come to be labelled 'basic needs'; The third approach, partially related to radical basic needs, but theoretically quite different, argues that development must be spatially or territorially defined; Finally, the position that the development of developing nations and regions will occur through increased interconnection into a unified world capitalist system has re-emerged. This position, termed 'accelerated growth', represents to some extent a continuation of the ideas of the modernization paradigm. Peasant-orientated rural development is central to redistribution through growth approaches. The agropolitan approach, and particularly the more comprehensive form advanced by Friedmann and Weaver, has been widely criticized.
