Planet dialectics : explorations in environment and development / Wolfgang Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, Wolfgang.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

xiv, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Pub. ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Wolfgang Sachs is one of the most thoughtful intellectuals to deal with the dual crisis in the Western world's relations with nature and social justice. In this book readers will find trenchant and elegant explorations of some of the foremost issues the world faces at the beginning of the new century: efficiency -- the mantra of our times; speed -- the love affair with modernity; globalization -- a market inevitability and the juggernaut of history?; sustainability -- oxymoron as rhetoric; development -- the 20th century's great undelivered promise; limits -- a new principle for the coming century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.

ISBN:

1856497003

1856497011

1868143384

1552660168

OCLC:

42649630