Rachel Carson Prize
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The Rachel Carson Prize is an international Environmental award, established in Stavanger, Norway in 1991 to commemorate the achievements of environmentalist Rachel Carson and to award efforts in her spirit.
The prize was established spontaneously under a meeting in Stavanger, on the initiative of speaker Berit Ås. The prize consists of money and the sculpture The cormorant by artist Irma Bruun Hodne.
- Awardees
- 1991: Sidsel Mørck, Norwegian author and activist
- 1993: Bergljot Børresen, Norwegian veterinarian
- 1995: Anne Grieg, Norwegian psychiatrist
- 1997: Berit Ås, Norwegian feminist and professor in social psychology
- 1999: Theo Colborn, American zoologist
- 2001: Renate Künast, German secretary of agriculture
- 2003: Åshild Dale, Norwegian farmer
- 2005: Malin Falkenmark, Swedish professor in hydrology
- 2007: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, inuitt og climate scientist
