Planet dialectics: explorations in environment and development
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.
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- Full title :Planet dialectics : explorations in environment and development / Wolfgang Sachs ; with a foreword by Susan George.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Zed Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (250 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781783603411, 1783603410
- oclc:ocn905920625
- LC Classification:HC79.E5
- Dewey Decimal:338.9/27
Table of Contents
Front Cover ; critique influence change; More critical praise for Planet Dialectics; About the author ; Title page; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword to the critique influence change edition; Preface to the first edition; Bibliographical Note; Part I The Archaeology of the Development Idea ; 1 The Archaeology of the Development Idea ; A Guide to the Ruins; The Discovery of Poverty; Technology as a Trojan Horse; The Economist's Blind Eye; From 'Development' to 'Security'; Part II The Shaky Ground of Sustainability ; 2 Global Ecology and the Shadow of 'Development'; Truman and What Followed.
Ambiguous Claims for JusticeEarth's Finiteness as a Management Problem; Bargaining for the Rest of Nature; Efficiency and Sufficiency; The Hegemony of Globalism; Notes; 3 The Gospel of Global Efficiency; More out of Less; Resources Everywhere; Never Enough; Always Rational; 4 Environment and Development: The Story of a Dangerous Liaison; Setting the Stage for the Brundtland Report; A Successful Ambivalence; Survival as a New Raison d'{u2174}at; Towards a Global Ecocracy?; Further reading; 5 Sustainable Development: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron; At the Dawn of the Security Age.
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