Lester R Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 274398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lester R Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lester R |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worldwatch Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Earth Policy Reader: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's World
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the f…
The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003
Vers une crise alimentaire en Chine et dans le monde ? [Entretien exclusif avec Lester Brown, l'auteur de Who will feed China ?]: Entretien exclusif avec Lester Brown, l'auteur de Who will feed China
State of the World 1997: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
Rice Bowls and Dust Bowls: Africa, Not China, Faces a Food Crisis
Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity
Reassessing the earth's population
Building a New World
The National Association for Science, Technology and Society and the Calvert Social Investment Fund created this lectureship to honor Robert D. Rodale, the late Chairman of Rodale Press and Rodale Institute, and a regular speaker at earlier TLC events. On February 7, 1992 the President of the Worldwatch Institute, Lester R. Brown, presented the first Robert Rodale Lecture
The Aral Sea: Disaster Area and Interdisciplinary Solution
Thirty years ago, the Aral Sea Project, a gigantic irrigation programme, was started in the USSR. An area twice the size of California was planted with cotton, rice, corn, fruit and vegetables, the desert bloomed, the population and its income rose, but the Aral Sea itself was starved of water from the rivers that used to flow into it. The environmental consequences were disastrous: the sea's salinity increased, fish died, salt storms and salt ra…
The Changing World Food Prospect: The Nineties and Beyond
Our Demographically Divided World
At this time the contemporary world is being divided in two by demographic forces: nearly half the world including the industrial countries and China is establishing a balance between births and deaths leading to an improvement in living conditions; but in the other half where birthrates remain high rapid population growth is beginning to overwhelm local life support systems in many countries leading to ecological deterioration and declining livi…
The Future of Urbanization: Facing The Ecological and Economic Restraints
State of the World
State of the World 1984: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
This work is the seventh annual assessment of the Earth's health from the Worldwatch Institute. The instutute, US based but with a world focus, has a firmly established reputation for providing the best assessment of the world's progress towards a sustainable society. Evidence of progress (or lack of it) is gathered from a very wide range of sources all of which are meticulously listed. It is presented soberly and with a balanced judgement of wha…
The future of automobiles
Soils and civilisation: The decline in food security
Building a Sustainable Society
Building A Sustainable Society
Building a sustainable society
Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem
The urban prospect: Re-examining the basic assumptions
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth's Resources
In France a riddle is used to instruct schoolchildren in the nature of exponential growth. The riddle starts with a single leaf in the lily with the number of leaves doubling each The teacher asks when is the 1/2 full if it is full the 30th day and the answer is on the 29th day. The world now with a population of 4 billion may already be at least 1/2 full. If doubling of population occurs within the next generation the pond could be entirely full…
The Food Prospect
The world food economy has undergone a basic transformation during the seventies. Not only did the world have surplus stocks and excess production capacity at the beginning of the decade, but it also appeared that both would be around for a long time to come. Suddenly in 1972 and 1973, they disappeared and the whole world was trying to make it from one harvest to the next. During the mid-seventies global food insecurity was greater than at any ti…
International Disaster Relief: Toward a Responsive System
The Agricultural Revolution in Asia
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
Rice Bowls and Dust Bowls: Africa, Not China, Faces a Food Crisis
The future of automobiles
Soils and civilisation: The decline in food security
International Disaster Relief: Toward a Responsive System
Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem
An examination of the economic social ecological and political facets of overpopulation portray the stresses and strains associated with continued population growth in a world already inhabited by four billion people. A lack of facilities and the effects of poor nutrition on intelligence make illiteracy especially common in areas of high population growth. Overfishing and pollution of oceans has lowered the productivity of oceanic fisheries and e…
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
Man, Land & Food: Looking Ahead at World Food Needs
New Directions in World Agriculture
A paper on new developments in world agriculture delivered at the 1968 International Conference on War on Hunger held in Washington D.C. is presented. Although there has been progress in bringing about an agricultural revolution especially in Asia the food/population problem is not close to being solved and will not be until population growth is effectively slowed and eventually stabilized. Favorable prices for food grains in most Asian countries…
The Agricultural Revolution in Asia
The Reality of Foreign Aid
Seeds of Change: The Green Revolution and Development in the 1970's
Agricultural Development in Asia
His main research focuses on the development of hydroponic techniques for horticultural crops in a greenhouse, production of specialty crops under Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), and development of specialty dietary components through hydroponic production of vegetables providing human health benefits beyond basic nutrition.His other research project includes studying autotoxicity, a phenomenon of intraspecific allelopathy in vegetables…
Commentary—Population growth, food needs and environmental stress
(1972). Commentary—Population growth, food needs and environmental stress. Ecology of Food and Nutrition: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 225-233
The Next Crisis? Food
An Exchange on Food
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
By Bread Alone
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
Abortion liberalization: A worldwide trend
Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem
An examination of the economic social ecological and political facets of overpopulation portray the stresses and strains associated with continued population growth in a world already inhabited by four billion people. A lack of facilities and the effects of poor nutrition on intelligence make illiteracy especially common in areas of high population growth. Overfishing and pollution of oceans has lowered the productivity of oceanic fisheries and e…
On the State of Agricultural History
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
The Urban Prospect: Reexamining the Basic Assumptions
International Disaster Relief: Toward a Responsive System
Spreading Deserts--The Hand of Man
Misuse of the land threatens much of the world's population; the remedy lies in social and political reform
World Population Trends: Signs of Hope, Signs of Stress
The urban prospect: Re-examining the basic assumptions
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth's Resources
In France a riddle is used to instruct schoolchildren in the nature of exponential growth. The riddle starts with a single leaf in the lily with the number of leaves doubling each The teacher asks when is the 1/2 full if it is full the 30th day and the answer is on the 29th day. The world now with a population of 4 billion may already be at least 1/2 full. If doubling of population occurs within the next generation the pond could be entirely full…
The Food Prospect
The world food economy has undergone a basic transformation during the seventies. Not only did the world have surplus stocks and excess production capacity at the beginning of the decade, but it also appeared that both would be around for a long time to come. Suddenly in 1972 and 1973, they disappeared and the whole world was trying to make it from one harvest to the next. During the mid-seventies global food insecurity was greater than at any ti…
Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem
Political science (23 works) · Economics (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Demography (9 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (6 works) · Agriculture (6 works)