Wolfgang Sachs

Wolfgang Sachs is a senior research fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Currently, he is also chair of the Board of Greenpeace Germany. He has been the editor of the influential and frequently reprinted "The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power"

(Zed Books, 1992), and "Global Ecology" (Zed Books, 1993). His most recent book in English, "Greening the North: A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity", marks an important shift of agenda beyond critique to envisaging concrete alternatives and feasible processes of social transition (coauthored with Reinhard Loske and Manfred Linz, Zed Books, 1998). Wolfgang Sachs travels widely as a public speaker and university lecturer in Europe, North America and the South.