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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November 25, 1946
Wolfgang Sachs is a researcher, writer, and university teacher focusing on environment, development, and globalization. His work critically examines the power of knowledge and deconstructs prevalent notions of development. Sachs actively engages with discourse on global justice, sustainable futures, and environmental challenges. His writings explore the intricate connections between economic systems, resource distribution, and fairness in our interconnected world.
- 2015
- 2007
Die gegenwärtigen Regeln für den internationalen Agrarhandel haben zunehmend negative Folgen für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung weltweit. Angesichts dieser Entwicklung zeigt der Bericht neue politische Perspektiven und Instrumente für ein Handelssystem auf, das den Armen eine wirkliche Chance bietet, die Umwelt schützt und den Übergang der Landwirtschaft in ein post-fossiles Zeitalter unterstützt. Er ist Ergebnis eines zweijährigen Dialog- und Konsultationsprozesses mit VertreterInnen von Bauernorganisationen, NGO's, Ministerien, Parlamenten und der Wissenschaft.
- 1992
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. This book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the automobile. A "history of our desires" for speed, wealth, violence, glamour, progress, and power--as refracted through images of the automobile--it is at once fascinating and provocative. -- Sachs recounts the development of the automobile industry and the impact on German society of the marketing and promotion of the motor car. As cars became more affordable and more common after World War II, advertisers fanned the competition for status, refining their techniques as ownership became ever more widespread. Sachs concludes by demonstrating that the triumphal procession of private motorization has in fact become an intrusion. The grand dreams once attached to the automobile have aged. Sachs appeals for the cultivation of new dreams born of the futility of the old ones, dreams of "a society liberated progress," in which location, distance, and speed are reconceived in more appropriately humane dimensions.