Anne H. Ehrlich

Anne Howland Ehrlich (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland; November 17, 1933) is an American senior research scientist emeritus in conservation biology in the Department of Biology at Stanford University and co-author of more than thirty books on overpopulation and ecology with her colleague and husband, Stanford professor Paul R. Ehrlich, including The Population Bomb (1968), The Stork and the Plow (1995), with Gretchen Daily, and The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2008).[1][2] She also has written extensively on issues of public concern such as population control, environmental protection, and environmental consequences of nuclear war.[2][3][4]

She is seen is one of the key figures in the debate on conservation biology.[5] The essence of her reasoning is that unlimited population growth and man's unregulated exploitation of natural resources form a serious threat to the environment.[6] Her publications have been a significant source of inspiration to the Club of Rome.[6] By 1993, the Ehrlichs' perspective has become the consensus view of scientists as represented by the "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity".[7][8]

She co-founded the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University with Paul Ehrlich, where she serves as policy coordinator after being an associate director from 1987 on.[9][10]

She served as one of seven outside consultants to the White House Council on Environmental Quality's Global 2000 Report (1980).[3]