Planet Dialectics

Explorations in Environment and Development

Wolfgang Sachs (Author) , Susan George (Foreword)

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Planet Dialectics

Explorations in Environment and Development

Wolfgang Sachs (Author) , Susan George (Foreword)

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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 fundamentally at odds with both the quest for justice among the world's people and the aspiration to reconcile humanity and nature.

Foreword to the Critique Influence Change Edition - Susan George
Preface to the First Edition
Part I: The Archaeology of the Development Idea
1. The Archaeology of the Development Idea

Part II: The Shaky Ground of Sustainability
2. Global Ecology and the Shadow of 'Development'
3. The Gospel of Global Efficiency
4. Environment and Development: The Story of a Dangerous Liaison
5. Sustainable Development: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron

Part III: In the Image of the Planet
6. One World - Many Worlds?
7. The Blue Planet: On the Ambiguity of a Modern Icon
8. Globalization and Sustainability

Part IV: Ecology and Equity in a Post-development Era
9. Ecology, Justice and the End of Development
10. The Two Meanings of Resource Productivity
11. Speed Limits
12. The Power of Limits: An Inquiry into New Models of Wealth

Product details

Published	Mar 12 2015
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	2nd
Extent	250
ISBN	9781783603411
Imprint	Zed Books
Series	Critique Influence Change
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Wolfgang Sachs

Wolfgang Sachs is an author and research director…

Foreword

Susan George

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, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development
Brings together insights from anthropology, history, economics, cultural studies and environmental science to show that the rapidly expanding global market economy is designed to benefit only the few... and will inevitably cause disastrous environmental overshoot... Planet Dialectics is an impressive book.

David Mittler in Resurgence
If you are not only concerned with the future of our planet but also with social justice, you have to read this book.

Gilbert Rist, author of The History of Development and The Delusions of Economics
Remains an essential read for anyone involved in the field of development. This book has never been more vital than today.

Jonathan Ensor, Stockholm Environment Institute