Sep 28 2011
Lester Brown
President and Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute; Guru of the Global Environment Movement; International Agricultural Analyst
A graduate in agricultural science from Rutgers University Lester Brown has, over the years, become the guru of the world environmental movement. Following a career as an international analyst with the US department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service Lester Brown joined forces with former head of UNICEF James Grant to found the Overseas Development Council. With the help of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund he founded in 1974 the Worldwatch Institute, a private non-profit making institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues.
Lester Brown is author and co-author of many books and papers dedicated to alerting the world to future problems resulting from the non-rational exploitation of natural resources and the disregard to sustainable growth. He has been internationally recognised for his work with honorary degrees from a string of universities and in 1995 was named as one of the 50 Great Americans by Marquis Who’s Who. He has received the MacArthur Fellow Award (1986), the United Nations Environment Prize (1987) The World Wildlife Fund for Nature Gold Medal (1989) and the Blue Planet Prize (1994). [/expand]
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Topics
The Future of the Automobile in an Oil-Short World
Reversing Africa’s Decline
Population Policies for a New Economic Era
The Global Economic Prospect
Food or Fuel: New Competition for the World’s Cropland
Six Steps to a Sustainable Society
Publications
Vital signs (1998, 1996)
Gay men and aging (1997)
Tough choices: Facing the challenge of food scarcity (1996)
Who will feed China? wake-up call for a small planet (1995)
Saving the planet (1991)
U.S. and Soviet agriculture – The shifting balance of power (1982)
Building a sustainable society (1981)
Running on empty the future of the automobile in an oil-short world (1979)
The twenty-ninth day accommodating human needs and numbers to the Earth’s resources (1978)
World population trends signs of hope, signs of stress (1977)
In the human interest a strategy to stabilize world population (1976)
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