The Age of Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9780231173155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 544 str.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Opis

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

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O autorze

Jeffrey D. Sachs, geb. 1954 in Detroit, ist einer der einflussreichsten Entwicklungsökonomen der Welt. Er leitet das Earth Institute der Columbia Universität in New York und ist der breiten Öffentlichkeit als Direktor des UN Millenium Projekts zur globalen Armutsbekämpfung bekannt. Es gibt keine maßgebliche internationale Organisation im Bereich der Entwicklungsökonomie, für die Sachs nicht tätig gewesen ist.