This major work puts forward a comprehensive and visionary strategy for transforming industrial economies towards sustainability. It argues that a non-wasteful, non-destructive model of wealth creation requires environmental policies that are at once feasible and not seen as detrimental to standards of living. Practical remedial measures must be combined, the author argues, with price and taxation policies which reflect ecological realities. He envisages a coming 'century of the environment' founded on more responsible science and technology and new ways of valuing labour and economic achievement. The book has already had a significant impact on German environmental debates and policies and has been extensively revised to include an assessment of the 1992 Earth Summit and the follow-up actions needed.

Harvest of devastation: The industrialization of agriculture and its human and environmental consequences

Business & Money

Economics

Other India Press

............................................................

Agricultural Testament

Literature & Fiction

Sir Albert Howard

Contemporary

"Clairmont's classic of the 1960s, The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism has just been republished with a long new introduction...a blockbuster, physically and mentally...Clairmont's great strength is that he not only itemises all the numerous dimensions of the transnationalisation of capital, but also integrates them into a functional whole, and assesses their impact on the world. consequently, the book ends not with a whimper, but a big bang, so fasten your seat belts when you start to read it." Ted Wheelwright, Transnational Centre, University of Sydney

Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism

Frederic F. Clairmont

Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuoka s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture. Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called do-nothing technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effortWhether you re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.

The One-straw Revolution: Introduction to Natural Farming

Masanobu Fukuoka

Science & Math

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence. The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

When Corporations Rule the World

David C. Korten

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes - that TV ought to be eliminated forever.Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns."

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Politics & Social Sciences

Jerry Mander

Social Sciences

Free from school

Reference

rahul-alvares

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Contributed articles; most covering the post-1962 period.

The transforming of Goa

Robert S. Newman

Norman Dantas

Multiversity

On social conditions of poor and Dalits in Maharashtra.

People

Anil Awachat

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Other India Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Other India Press