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Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown, is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and Japan’s Blue Planet Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Books by Lester R. Brown

  1. Book CoverBeyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge


    On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth will slow, but how.More

  2. Book CoverBreaking New Ground: A Personal History


    An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.More

  3. Book CoverThe Earth Policy Reader


    Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More

  4. Book CoverEco-Economy


    "One of the world's most influential thinkers."—Washington PostMore

  5. Book CoverFull Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity


    With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.More

  6. Book CoverOutgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures


    How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.More

  7. Book CoverPlan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    Substantially Revised

    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

  8. Book CoverPlan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble


    A bold new plan for those concerned about rising temperatures, population projections, and spreading water scarcity.More

  9. Book CoverSaving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy


    The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems.More

  10. Book CoverWorld on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse


    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.More