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Lester R. Brown
Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Books by Lester R. Brown
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Lester R. Brown
Paperback, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Lester R. Brown
Paperback, 2012
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.The Earth Policy Reader
Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, Earth Policy Institute
Paperback, 2002
Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Lester R. Brown
Substantially Revised, Paperback, 2009
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostThe Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth's Resources
Lester R. Brown
Paperback, 1978
A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles—two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and so on. Question: If the pond...Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy
Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel
Paperback, 1991
The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems.Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
Lester R. Brown, Linda Starke
Paperback, 1996
Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
Lester R. Brown, Linda Starke
Paperback, 1996
Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, Brian Halweil
Paperback, 1999
On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth will slow,...Eco-Economy
Lester R. Brown
Paperback, 2001
"One of the world's most influential thinkers."—Washington Post