The Development Dictionary

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856490443
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Dictionary written by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse in the post-war era. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and highlights its particular bias. Exposing their historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility, the authors call for a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea. This is urgently needed, they argue, in order to liberate people's minds - in both North and South - for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. These essays are an invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136455
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Dictionary written by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility. The authors argue that a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea is urgently needed, in order to liberate people’s minds in both North and South for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The combined result forms a must-read invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

Author : Aram Ziai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429836538
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Dictionary @25 written by Aram Ziai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This volume is devoted to the legacy of The Development Dictionary and to discussing Post-Development. This book originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Ashish Kothari
Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788193732984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pluriverse written by Ashish Kothari and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of over a hundred essays on alternatives to the dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. The book presents views and practices from around the world in a collective search for an ecologically and socially just world.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856491648
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Ecology written by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical dispute. This is why some of the world's leading environmental thinkers have come together in this volume to probe critically the new language being developed by environmental professionals. They examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable development. They explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risks between North and South. And they warn that 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective, may degenerate into an effor to redesign and manage Nature in order to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of resource plunder and pollution. This book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify the issues involves and what might constitute appropriate action.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125011354
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development Dictionary, The: A Guide to Knowledge as Power written by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last forty years can be called the age of development . But development has been much more than a socio-economic endeavour. It is a perception which models reality, a myth which comforts societies and a fantasy which unleashes passion. This book explores development as a particular world view. The essays are an invitation to experts, grassroot movements and students of development to recognise the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

Author : Gerald Walton Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Development Dictionary written by Gerald Walton Fry and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Gilpin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471962201
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Environmental and Sustainable Development written by Alan Gilpin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb, concise dictionary comprises over 2,000 entries defining terms and concepts relating to environmental planning, management, conservation and sustainable development. The text includes diagrams and boxes covering the whole span of environmental issues with the emphasis on: * international conventions * environmental law * environmental evolution in many countries * pollution control * environmental impact assessment * sustainable development * inter-generational equity Containing more entries than any other previously published dictionary of its kind, this book is an essential reference for students, environmental managers, politicians and journalists.

Author : Kenneth J. Panton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538124203
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the United States written by Kenneth J. Panton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the United States from a late-18th century coalition of rebel British colonies to a 21st century global superpower was shaped by several forces. As the nation expanded its boundaries after the Treaty of Paris confirmed independence from Great Britain in 1783, it acquired a rich variety of resources – coal, fertile soils, forests, iron ore, oil, precious metals, space, and varied climates as well as extensive tracts of territory. Technological innovations, such as the cotton gin and steam power, enabled entrepreneurs to exploit those resources and create wealth. Federal and state legislators provided environments in which the economy could flourish, and military strategists kept the country safe from external attack. Diplomats negotiated commercial agreements with foreign governments and cultivated multinational alliances that strengthened freedoms. Through its focus on the people and places that shaped the country’s economic and political development and its detailed accounts of the processes that enabled the U.S. to expand across the continent Historical Dictionary of the United States contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the United States.

Author : Sharad Chari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Reader written by Sharad Chari and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising writings ordered around intentional and imminent 'development', this reader offers a compendium of classical and contemporary debates on development: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs.