Fred Pearce
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{{Short description|English science writer (born 1951)}}
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Fred Pearce (born 30 December 1951) is an English science writer and public speaker based in London. He reports on the environment, popular science and development issues. He specialises in global environmental issues, including water and climate change.[http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorid=5034] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321173811/http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorid=5034|date=21 March 2012}} Biographical details from the Transworld Publishers website
Biography
Pearce is currently the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine and a regular contributor to the British newspapers Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, and Times Higher Education.{{cn|date=March 2022}} He has also written for several US publications including Audubon, Foreign Policy, Popular Science, Seed, and Time.{{cn|date=March 2022}}
Pearce has written books on environmental issues and development issues. 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1903919568 |title=Deep Jungle: Journey To The Heart Of The Rainforest by Fred Pearce (The Author) |publisher=Random House |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318230305/http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1903919568 |archive-date=18 March 2012 |access-date=2 June 2017}}
Writings
- {{cite book
| last1 = Pearce | first1 = Fred
| title = Turning up the heat: our perilous future in the global greenhouse
| date = 9 November 1989
| publisher = Paladin Books
| location = London, United Kingdom
| isbn = 978-058608915-6
}} Paperback.
- {{cite book
| last1 = Pearce | first1 = Fred
| last2 = Gribbin | first2 = John
| title = Global warming
| date = 1 April 2002
| publisher = DK
| location = London, United Kingdom
| isbn = 978-078948419-2
}} Paperback.
- {{cite book | title=Deep Jungle| publisher=Eden Project Books | year=2006 | isbn=9781903919569}}
- {{cite book | title=When the Rivers Run Dry| publisher=Eden Project Books | year=2007 | isbn=9781903919583}}
- {{cite book | title=Earth: Then and Now| publisher=Mitchell Beazley| year=2007 | isbn=9781845332464}}
- {{cite book| title=The Last Generation| publisher=Eden Project Books| year=2007| isbn=9781903919880| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/lastgenerationho0000pear_u4j3}}
- {{cite book| title=With Speed and Violence: Why scientists fear tipping points in climate change| publisher=Beacon Press| year=2007| isbn=9780807085769| url=https://archive.org/details/withspeedviolenc00pear}}
- [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526173.900-climate-tipping-points-loom-large.html Climate tipping points loom large]
- {{cite book | title=Confessions of an Eco Sinner | publisher=Eden Project Books | year=2008 | isbn=9781905811106}}
- The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future , Beacon Press, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-8070-8583-7}}
- The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming, Guardian Books, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-85265-229-9}}
- Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource (contributing essayist), National Geographic Society, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4262-0572-9}}
- {{cite book | title=Peoplequake| publisher=Eden Project Books | year=2011 | isbn=9781905811397}}
- The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth, Beacon Press, 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-8070-0324-4}}
- {{cite book | title=The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation| publisher=Icon Books Ltd | year=2016 | isbn=9781785780516}}
- {{cite book | title=Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age| publisher=Beacon Press | year=2018 | isbn=9780807092491}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/freds-footprint/ Fred's Footprint blog on New Scientist website (defunct)]
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Category:English environmentalists