Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery, actually Timothy Fridjof Flannery (born January 28, 1956 in Melbourne ), is an Australian biologist and zoologist . He became known for his non-fiction books, which include The Future Eaters , The Feral Future and Throwim Way Leg . Among other things, he has dealt very critically with the impact of invasive neobiota on the Australian ecosystem.
Tim Flannery has held a number of important and in some cases also influential scientific positions. These include Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum , Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University and environmental consultant for the Australian Parliament. He was also director of the South Australian Museum .
For his book Wir Wettermacher , Tim Flannery received the international Corine Future Prize in 2006 as well as the Knowledge Book of the Year prize awarded by the magazine bild der Wissenschaft .
Tim Flannery was named Australian of the Year on January 25, 2007 and was appointed to the World Future Council as a councilor in May of that year .
Works (in German translation)
- 2003: Jungle Paths - Adventurous journeys through Papua New Guinea . Piper Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-492-23896-3
- Eternal Pioneers - A Natural History of North America and its People in Five Acts . German by Frauke Czwikla and Sabine Dörlemann . Dörlemann Verlag , Zurich, ISBN 3-908777-03-8 (Tb. 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17258-0 )
- 2007: Wir Wettermacher - How people are changing the climate and what that means for our lives . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 3-10-021109-X . Fischer paperback, ISBN 978-3-596-17221-4
- We climate killers - How we can save the earth . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 978-3-596-85248-2
- 2011: For better or for worse - The earth and us: history and future of a special relationship . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 978-3-7632-6482-7
- 2013: In the realm of the islands - My search for undiscovered species and other adventures in the South Pacific . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 978-3100211163
- 2015: The climate change. How we save our atmosphere with new technologies . Fischer, Frankfurt, ISBN 978-3-596-03378-2
- 2019: Europe - The first 100 million years. Insel, ISBN 978-3-458-17822-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Tim Flannery in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at ABC Australia
- further biography at ABC Australia
- World Future Council
- Eckart Löhr: Committed to the dead end. Review of "The Climate Change"
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SURNAME | Flannery, Tim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flannery, Timothy Fridjof (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian biologist and zoologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |