Paul Harrison at Gardens by the Sea in Singapore 2012

Paul Harrison (born 1945 in

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) 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

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, ''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

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(UNEP)

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award for his writings on environment. In 1988 he won a Global Media Award from the Population Institute. He edited the

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'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),

(UNFPA) and

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(UNEP). He was the lead author of the

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''Atlas of Population and Environmen''t. From 2005 to 2008 he edited the

Yearbook (formerly Geo Yearbook). Harrison was born in

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, and has master's degrees in European languages and literature (

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1963-66) and political sociology (

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1967-8), and in 1995 a PhD from

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in Earth Sciences and Geography. PaulHarrisonFirewood

In July 1996 he posted the first page of what became th
scientific pantheism site
and in 1997 he started the mailing list that grew into the World Pantheist Movement.

References

External links

Harrison home page & profile
*World Pantheis
Movement
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Paul 1945 births People from Oldham Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Pantheists Living people English environmentalists Non-fiction environmental writers