Harrison, Paul, 1945-

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Name (Latin)
Harrison, Paul, 1945-
Name (Arabic)
هاريسون، بول، 1945-
Other forms of name
Harrison, Paul Anthony, 1945-
Date of birth
1945-07-07
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Developing countries--Economic conditions
Environmentalism
Population
Poverty
Spirituality
Sustainable development
Occupation
Journalists
Photographers
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110963263
Wikidata: Q3427121
Library of congress: n 00104201
HAI10: 000129602
Sources of Information
  • Harrison, Paul. AAAS atlas of population and environment, 2001:t.p. (Paul Harrison) data sh. (Paul Anthony Harrison; b. July 7, 1945)
  • His Inside the Third World, 1980, c1979:t.p. (Paul Harrison) p. 1 (freelance writer & journalist in London)
  • His website, viewed 2 Nov. 2017(Paul Harrison, nature and environment writer and photographer; born in Oldham, Lancashire, UK; lived for most of his adult life in Hampstead, London, but since 2002 has lived in the Santa Monica Mountains in California; trained as a journalist and worked for three years with the social issues magazine New Society in London, writing about poverty, mental health, crime, and race issues; in 1975 went freelance and, having always wanted to be a foreign correspondent, specialized in writing and photography about poverty and environment in developing countries; has been the editor of top-level reports of UN agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Population Fund, and the UN Environment Programme; more recently has shifted to writing about nature and spirituality; lists books)
  • Phone call to M. Coates, U.Cal.Press, 11-21-00(Paul Harrison also wrote The Third Revolution (1992) and The greening of Africa (1987))
  • e-mail from M. Coates, U.Cal.Press, 12-14-00(5 more titles held by LC verif. as his; other titles verif. as his, held by LC but w/o SOR given: Agriculture: toward 2000 (1979 & 1981); Land, food, and people (FO, 1984); The state of world population (1990, 1992, UNFPA); other titles not held: Africa: from crisis to sustainable growth (World Bank, 1989), The greening of Lesotho (1989), Population and sustainable development (UN Population Fund, 1997))