Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to ACT - Hardcover

by Robert Watson (Editor)

The Blue Planet Prize, awarded by the Asahi Glass Foundation, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious international honors for scientists and researchers in environmental studies. This book features contributions from recent award winners eager to add their voices to the global debate over contemporary environmental and sustainable-development issues. They also discuss the correlation among environmental degradation, poverty, and violence.

Author Biography

Robert Watson is chief scientific advisor for the UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs and chair of environmental science and science director at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia.