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Greening the North: A Post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology & Equity: A Post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity
Wolfgang Sachs
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Paperback. This text presents an analysis and proposals for managing the transition to environmental sustainability in industrial countries. The concept of "environmental space" and its development of indicators for measuring an economy's national and global impact give the text potential political impact. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, figures, tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JP; KCP; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
While sustainability is in danger of being reduced to a meaningless platitude, the brutal fact remains that industrial countries make a disproportionately large and negative impact on the environment. A serious transition to sustainability will require changing people's mindsets and social institutions, in addition to public policies, technologies and business practices. This book presents a path-breaking analysis as well as highly innovative proposals for managing this transition. Emanating from Europe's foremost environmental policy think-tank, it has already stirred up a major new debate in Germany on radical, but feasible, directions in which the governments of industrial societies ought to be moving. The concept of 'environmental space' and its ingenious development of indicators for measuring an economy's national and global impact combine with its delineation of concrete policies to give this book its intellectual power and potential political impact.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856495080
SKU
KI20002278
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Wolfgang Sachs
Wolfgang Sachs is a senior research fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. He has long been active in the German and Italian green movements and is currently chairman of Greenpeace in Germany. Amongst the various appointments he has held, he has been co-editor of the Society for International Development's journal Development in Rome; Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Pennsylvania State University in the USA; and a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen. His first book, For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires was published by University of California Press in 1992. He also edited the immensely influential Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power which was published by Zed Books in the same year and has since been translated into numerous languages. He travels and lectures widely in Europe, the United States and the South. Reinhard Loske is Senior Economist in the Climate Policy Division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and heads the Institute's study group, Sustainable Germany. Trained originally as a banker, he subsequently studied Economics, Public Administration and Political Science at the Universities of Bonn, Nottingham, Paderborn and Kassell. Before joining the Wuppertal Institute, he worked as a government official in the State Ministry for Economics and Technology in Dusseldorf and as a policy advisor to the Green Party in the Federal Parliament in Bonn. Beside his scientific work, Loske was co-founder of various environmental and North/South NGOs. His main fields of work are energy policy, sustainable development, international relations and ecological economics Manfred Linz originally studied Theology, Psychology and the Social Sciences. He then spent his professional career in broadcasting as a researcher and editor, eventually becoming Head of the Department of Social Affairs at the West German Broadcasting Company. He is now also on the staff of the Wuppertal Institute, mainly responsible for North-South relations.
Reviews for Greening the North: A Post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology & Equity: A Post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity
'A breath of fresh air, this book gives us a roadmap to sustainability in the 21st century. It should be widely read, passionately debated and thoughtfully analysed.' Jeremy Rifkin 'The North has led the world into a highly seductive but environmentally unsustainable development model. Only the North can now lead the world out of it. This book has the potential to spark off a global debate on how the future of the world can be secured.' Anil Agarwal, Centre for Science and Environment 'Everybody pays lipservice to the need to change the North profoundly for the sake of global sustainable development. This is a book which lives up to the challenge and figures out what it means.' Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network 'Greening the North is a breakthrough work. No longer is ecological thinking a reactive or resistant response to industrial development. This is the first time a comprehensive ecological framework has been applied to whole field of economic planning and social development where it can be seen as an astute, humane, and decidedly advantageous, one might say inevitable, direction for society. A primer for the 21st century in all industrialized countries, a godsend for the balance of the world's peoples who have wondered how and when the north will take responsibility for its impact upon the global commons.' Paul Hawken, Author, Ecology of Commerce