Lester R. Brown
Lester ("Les") Russell Brown (born 1934 ) is an environmental analyst and author.
He is the founder and director of the Earth Policy Institute (founded 2001), a nonprofit environmental research institute based in Washington, DC , where he also lives. Previously, he was director of the Worldwatch Institute , also in Washington DC , for 26 years
Brown has published numerous books on environmental topics that have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Brown has been named "one of the world's most influential thinkers" by the Washington Post . In the American Who's Who he operates under the 50 "Great Americans".
Lester R. Brown is Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
In 1986 he became a MacArthur Fellow and in 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Lester Brown is also one of 350 ambassadors for the climate protection organization 350.org .
Works
- Erosion: The Death of Soils or The Creeping Threat to the Global Economy (1985)
- To save the planet earth: Strategies for an ecologically sustainable world economy , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
- Who feeds China? Alert to a Small Planet (1997).
- Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble (2003)
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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006)
- Plan B 2.0: Mobilization to save civilization. Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89706-606-8 .
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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008)
- Plan B 3.0: This is how we save the world! , Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin, 2008, ISBN 3-89706-306-9
- Plan B 4.0: This is how we save the world! , Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin, 2009, ISBN 3-89706-307-7
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Lester R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Lester Russell; Brown, Les |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American environmental analyst and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |