Wolfgang Sachs

Wolfgang Sachs ( born November 25, 1946 in Munich) is a researcher, university teacher and writer in the topics of Environmental Development and Business Management. He studied sociology and Catholic theology in Munich, Tübingen and Berkeley. In 1971 he graduated from the Master's degree in sociology in 1972 he received the degree of Diplom- theologians. Three years later he graduated as Dr. rer. soc.

After working as a research assistant in Berlin (1975-1984), especially in the research project Energy and Society (1980-1984) and at the Society for International Development in Rome, he was from 1987 to 1990 Visiting Professor at the Pennsylvania State University and from 1990 to 1993 working in Essen on cultural Studies Institute.

In 1992 he was at Zed Books, London, The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, one central to the critique of development anthology, which has been translated into numerous languages ​​, out.

Since 1993 he has been at the Wuppertal Institute has, since 2009 as head of the Berlin office. From 1993 to 2001 he was also chairman of the board of Greenpeace Germany, and from 1999-2001 Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ). He was also commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Chairman of two international civil society expert panels, one for the creation of a Memorandum for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 (The Jo'burg Memo) and the other (also on behalf of Misereor ) for a dialogue / Report on multilateral trade rules for a sustainable Markets in Agriculture ( Slow Trade - sound Farming, 2007). In addition, since 2003 he is Chairman of the Wiss. Advisory Board of the annual exhibition " Terra Futura " in Florence and in 2008 curator of the " Toblacher talks" in Dobbiaco.

His research focuses on the environment, globalization, new models of prosperity. He was lead author of Fair Future. Limited resources and global justice; a report. and Sustainable Germany in a globalized world, both studies from the Wuppertal Institute.

Sachs is also a member of the Club of Rome and lecturer at Schumacher College and Honorary Professor at the University of Kassel. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Attac.

Selected Works

German

  • Sachs, Wolfgang; The love of cars. A look back into the history of our desires. - Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1984 ( Tb 1990). Also published in English.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang; The archeology of the development idea - Frankfurt: . IKO -Verlag, 1992, also in English, French, Italian appeared.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang ( ed.); The Development Dictionary. A Guide to Knowledge as Power. - London: Zed Books, 1992 ( As in the West, on earth A polemical Handbook on development policy - Reinbek. Rowohlt, 1993). Also published in Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, Farsi, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang ( ed.); Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict - London: Zed Books, 1993 ( The Planet as a patient about the contradictions of global environmental policy - Basel: Birkhauser, 1994)
  • Sachs, Wolfgang ( co-author ); Sustainable Germany, ed. BUND and Misereor of - Berlin -Basel: Birkhauser, 1996, also in English, Italian, Japanese.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang; Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development. - London: Zed Books, 1999 ( After us the future The global conflict over justice and ecology - Frankfurt: .. Brandes & Apsel, 2002). Also published in Japanese.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang ( ed); The Jo'burg Memo - Fairness in a Fragile World, ed. Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Berlin, 2002 ( The Jo'burg Memo Ecology -. The new color of justice). Published in 14 languages.
  • Sachs, Wolfgang & Santarius, Tilman et al.; Fair Future. Limited resources and global justice; a report. - Munich: Beck, 2005 Also in English and Italian. .
  • Sachs, Wolfgang & Santarius, Tilman et al.; Slow Trade - Sound Farming. A Multilateral Framework for Sustainable Markets in Agriculture, ed. Also published in Spanish, French, Arabic, Czech from Heinrich Böll Foundation and Misereor - - Aachen, 2007 ( Sound Farming Multilateral Framework for Sustainable Markets in Agriculture Slow Trade. ).
  • Sachs, Wolfgang ( co-author ); Sustainable Germany in a globalized world., Ed. Bread for the World, eed and UNION - Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2008
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