&i;`In his seminal&o; Development Dictionary, &i;Wolfgang Sachs and his colleagues convincingly showed that economic development was the problem rather than the solution. Now, in his equally seminal [new book], Sachs and his colleagues show us, equally convincingly, that it is only at the local, grassroots level, rather than at the global and hence institutional level, that the sustainable society we are all talking about can be brought into being.'&o; Edward Goldsmith