Wolfgang Sachs
See also: Sachs
Wolfgang Sachs is a contemporary economist who carried out one of criticisms most radical of the concept of development.
Director of the Wuppertal Institute for the climate, the environment and energy in Germany, one of principal the think ecological tank of Europe, it knew to animate a collective reflection around this concept, and of the " after-developpement" , concept precursor of that of Decrease , currently sails about it in certain mediums.
Course
After having been " Research Fellow" in the " project; Energy and Société" technical University of Berlin at the beginning of the Years 1990, it Co-publishes the Dictionary of the Development. This work is a questioning of the concept of development.
Since 1993, he works at the Wuppertal Institute for the climate, the environment and energy
Its reflection on the development joined that of people asserting heritage of the Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich, like the Mexican Gustavo Esteva, with whom he wrote a book on the After-development: Of the ruins of the development .
It then widens its research field to include the relations between the globalisation and durability, as well as the analysis of new models of richness.
It currently directs the transverse project " Globalisation and Durabilité" and doctoral studies on " Environment and equity in the mode of the trade international".
Its international implication
Wolfgang Sachs also counts among the founding members of the ethical, political and scientific Collegium international, association who wishes to bring answers intelligent and suitable until the people of the world vis-a-vis the new challenges of our time wait.
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