Fred Pearce

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Fred Pearce (born December 30, 1951 in Great Britain ) is a British author and journalist .

Life

Pearce has studied the environment , development, and popular science since the 1980s . The topics covered more than 60 countries around the globe and z. B. the effects of human activities on water distribution and climate change .

Pearce is currently the environmental advisor to New Scientist magazine and is a regular contributor to UK and US newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph , The Guardian , The Independent as well as Audubon , Foreign Policy , Popular Science etc. His books have been published in multiple languages ​​such as French, German and Japanese translated. He wrote a number of reports for WWF , the Red Cross , UNESCO , the World Bank, and international and government environmental organizations.

His book Die neue Wilden was named Knowledge Book of the Year in 2016.

Publications

  • Turning up the heat: Our Perilous Future in the Global Greenhouse. Paladin Verlag, November 1989. ISBN 0586089152 .
    • German by Karl-Heinz Gschrey: Greenhouse Earth: The dangers of global climate change . Westermann, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-07-509238-X .
  • Green Warriors: The People and the Politics behind the Environmental Revolution . 1991.
  • Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming Our Water in an Age of Globalization . Island Press, Washington DC 2004, ISBN 1-55963-681-5 .
  • Earth Then and Now . Mitchell Beazley, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84533-246-4 .
    • German by Martina Fischer: The earth then and now. Images of a dramatic change . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7716-4349-2 .
  • When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens when Our Water Runs Out? 2007, ISBN 978-1-903919-58-3 .
    • German by Gabriele Gockel and Barbara Steckhan: When the rivers dry up . Kunstmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88897-471-7 .
  • The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Revenge for Climate Change . Eden Project Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-903919-88-0 .
    • German: Tomorrow's weather: when the climate becomes a threat . Kunstmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88897-490-8 .
  • Confessions of an Eco Sinner . Eden Project Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-905811-10-6 .
    • German by Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg and Barbara Steckhan: Four times around the world: Confessions of an eco-sinner . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7716-4383-6 .
  • with others (children's book): The Big Green Book . Eden Children's Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-905811-43-4 .
  • The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth. 2012, ISBN 978-0-8070-0324-4 .
    • German by Gabriele Gockel and Barbara Steckhan: Land Grabbing: The global battle for land . Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88897-783-1 .
  • The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation. 2015.
    • German: The new wild ones: How it succeeds with strange animals and plants to save nature . Oekom, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86581-768-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Once upon a time. In: The time . Literature, December 2007.
  2. ↑ Nature is also globalizing in FAZ of July 26, 2016, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Pearce, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain