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Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
Wolfgang Sachs
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Description for Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
Paperback. In this classic text, Wolfgang Sachs, one of the world's leading post-development thinkers shows how the notion of 'sustainable development' is fundamentally flawed. Series: Critique. Influence. Change. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; RNA; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.
All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet’s limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of development. This classic collection of trenchant and elegant explorations addresses the crisis of the Western world’s relations with nature and social justice. Examining the notions of efficiency, speed, globalization and development, Sachs shows that sustainability, truly conceived, is incompatible with the worldwide rule of economism. Planet Dialectics reveals that the Western development model is ... Read more
All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet’s limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of development. This classic collection of trenchant and elegant explorations addresses the crisis of the Western world’s relations with nature and social justice. Examining the notions of efficiency, speed, globalization and development, Sachs shows that sustainability, truly conceived, is incompatible with the worldwide rule of economism. Planet Dialectics reveals that the Western development model is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Critique Influence Change
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783603404
SKU
V9781783603404
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About Wolfgang Sachs
Wolfgang Sachs is a researcher, writer and university teacher in the field of environment, development and globalization. His best-known works include the immensely influential Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (Zed Books, 2010), which has been translated into numerous languages; Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict (Zed Books, 1993); Greening the North: A Post-Industrial Blueprint for ... Read more
Reviews for Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
Sachs’ ideas are dynamite.
New Internationalist
A remarkable book... well written, full of food for thought... It should attract a wide readership among students dealing with development, environment, globalization and planning issues.
Progress in Development Studies
Still remarkably fresh and insightful, Planet Dialectics gives us a much needed critique of economics gone wrong.
Camilla Toulmin, ... Read more
New Internationalist
A remarkable book... well written, full of food for thought... It should attract a wide readership among students dealing with development, environment, globalization and planning issues.
Progress in Development Studies
Still remarkably fresh and insightful, Planet Dialectics gives us a much needed critique of economics gone wrong.
Camilla Toulmin, ... Read more