Harrison, Paul, 1945-
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- 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))
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Paul Harrison (born 1945 in Oldham) is an environmental writer, author of books and reports on environment and development, and editor of major United Nations reports. He is the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement. For most of his life, Harrison has been a journalist and writer on the environment, Third-World development and poverty. His best known books are Inside the Third World (1979) (on world poverty) and The Third Revolution about world population and environment. Also The Greening of Africa (1987) about sustainable development for Africa, and Inside the Inner City (1992) about inner city poverty in East London. His book on pantheism, Elements of Pantheism, was published by Element Books in 1999. Harrison has worked for six UN agencies and travelled to many Third-World countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In 1988 he received a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Global 500 Roll of Honour award for his writings on environment. In 1988 he won a Global Media Award from the Population Institute. He edited the United Nations Population Fund's State of World Population, (1990 and 1992) and was editor-in-chief for the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life report Caring for the Future. He has edited flagship reports for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He was the lead author of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Atlas of Population and Environment. From 2005 to 2008 he edited the United Nations Environment Programme Yearbook (formerly Geo Yearbook). Harrison was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England, and has master's degrees in European languages and literature (University of Cambridge 1963-66) and political sociology (London School of Economics 1967-8), and in 1995 a PhD from Cambridge in Earth Sciences and Geography. In July 1996 he posted the first page of what became the scientific pantheism site, and in 1997 he started the mailing list that grew into the World Pantheist Movement.
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