Reinhard Loske

Dear Visitors

Welcome to my Website. We live in times of escalating ecological crises that really threaten our lives, livelihoods and future. The need to transform our societies towards sustainable development is becoming more and more urgent. Global heating, biodiversity loss, energy transition, resource conservation and environmental justice, all these issues are pressing and start to shape the political agenda on local, regional, national and international levels. Therefore technological change is as important as lifestyle change and cultural change and a new economic order, that serves people and does not oppress, functionalize and alienate them from environmental and social needs. On this website, I want to share my ideas and experiences in the field of sustainable development in the scientific, political and NGO arena and as a writer with you. Comments are welcome.

Yours
Reinhard Loske

Affiliations

ECOROPA

Witten/Herdecke University

German Council on Foreign Relations

Books

Greening the North
A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity
Zed Books London, 1999

"Greening the North has the potential to spark off a global debate on how the futur of the world can be secured." Anil Agarwal, Center for Science and Environment, New Delhi

Fairness in a Fragile World
Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, Berlin 2002

"The Memorandum argues that there can be no poverty eradication without a healthy environment." yes!magazine

The Good Society without Growth
Basilisken-Presse, Rangsdorf 2013

"Reinhard Loske advocates the formation of innovative transition towns featuring social banking, taxation according to environmental consumption rather than labour, and an enforced basic income." Sherelle Jacobs im "Guardian"