Fred Pearce

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Fred Pearce is an English author and journalist based in London. He has been described as one of Britain's finest science writers[1] and has reported on environment, popular science and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years. He specialises in global environmental issues, including water and climate change.[2] and frequently takes heretic and counter-intuitive views - "a sceptic in the best sense", he says.[3]

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[edit] Biography

Fred Pearce is currently the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine and a regular contributor to the London Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Guardian, Times Higher Education Supplement and Country Living. Fred's Footprint, his fortnightly environment blog, appears on the New Scientist web site. He has also written for several US publications including Foreign Policy, Audubon magazine, Seed, Popular Science and Time.

Fred has written a wide range of books on environment and development issues published in both the UK and US including Confessions of an Eco Sinner[4], When the Rivers Run Dry[5], Earth: Then and Now, including a foreword by Zac Goldsmith[6], The Last Generation[7] (on climate change) and Deep Jungle. His books have been translated into at least ten languages including French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish.

He is a regular broadcaster and international speaker on environmental issues, and has given public presentations on all six continents in the past two years. Among his engagements have been the Edinburgh, Hay and Salisbury Book Festivals, the Ottawa and Melbourne International Writers Festivals, the Brisbane RiverSymposium in 2006[8], Yale and Cambridge Universities, a speaking tour for the British Council in India, and presentations to business and financial groups, such as AngloAmerican in South Africa, Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong and UBS in London.

He has also written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank, the European Environment Agency, and the UK Environment Agency. He is a trustee of the Integrated Water Resources International.[9]

[edit] Quotes

"Fred is one of the few people that understand the world as it really is" - James Lovelock, scientist and inventor of the Gaia hypothesis.[10]
"[Fred is] One of my heroes" - Rt Hon John Gummer MP, former UK environment secretary.[11]

[edit] Awards

  • 2002 CGIAR agricultural research science journalism award
  • 2001 UK environment journalist of the year
  • 1991 Peter Kent Conservation Book Award
  • 1991 TES Junior Information Book Award
  • 1987 UK safety writer of the year.

[edit] Recent books

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hot under the collar - Times Online. Retrieved on 2008-04-11.
  2. ^ [1]Biographical details from the Transworld Publishers website
  3. ^ Pearce, F: "The Last Generation". Eden Project Books, 2006
  4. ^ Pearce, F: "Confessions of an Eco Sinner". Eden Project Books, 2008
  5. ^ Pearce, F: "When the Rivers Run Dry". Eden Project Books, 2006
  6. ^ Pearce, F: "Earth: then and Now". Mitchell Beazley, 2007
  7. ^ Pearce, F: "The Last Generation". Eden Project Books, 2006
  8. ^ [2]River Connect: The newsletter of the International River Foundation Sept 2006
  9. ^ [3]Biographical details from www.rbooks.co.uk
  10. ^ Pearce, F: "The Last Generation". Eden Project Books, 2006
  11. ^ Stated during the Water and Agriculture Conference, Ipswich October 2007