The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1786997517 ISBN 13: 9781786997517

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2019

Riassunto

The concise, critical guide to key concepts in development studies.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Wolfgang Sachs is an author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, in Germany. He has been chair of the board of Greenpeace Germany, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is a member of the Club of Rome. Amongst the various appointments he has held are co-editor of the Society for International Development's journal Development; visiting professor of science, technology and society at Pennsylvania State University and fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen. He regularly teaches at Schumacher College and as Honorary Professor at the University of Kassel.

Wolfgang Sachs's first English book, For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires, was published by the University of California Press in 1992. Several of his works have been published by Zed Books. They include the immensely influential Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (edited, 1992), which has since been translated into numerous languages; Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict (edited, 1993); Greening the North: A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity (co-authored with Reinhard Loske and Manfred Linz, 1998); Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development (1999) and (with T. Santarius et al) Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice (2007).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786997517
• ISBN 13: 9781786997517
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Redattore: Sachs Wolfgang
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile