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A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge Edited by Laurie Mazur
October 13, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Jaime Jennings, 202-232-7933×44 EMAIL jjennings@islandpress.org WEBSITE www.popjustice.org PRESS RELEASE A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge Edited by ...More
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Robert Engelman
Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute
Robert Engelman is an award-winning author and specialist in issues of population, reproductive health, global public health, climate change, and food security. Before joining Worldwatch, a globally focused environmental research organization, Mr. Engelman was vice president for research at Population Action International where he directed its program on population and the environment. His book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, won the Population Institute’s 2008 Global Media Award for Individual Reporting on Population. A former newspaper reporter specializing in politics, science, health, and the environment, Engelman has served on the faculty of Yale University as a visiting lecturer and was founding secretary of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Engelman’s writing has appeared in scientific and news media including Nature, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor.