Lester R. Brown

Lester Russell Brown (n. 28 martie 1934, Bridgeton^⁠(d), New Jersey, SUA) este un analist de mediu care a scris mai multe cărți pe tema problemelor globale de mediu. Este fondator și președinte al Institutului de Politică Planetară (Earth Policy Institute), organizație de cercetare non-profit din Washington, D.C..

El a introdus conceptul de Eco-economie, într-o carte publicată în 2001, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth.

În data de 11 mai 2010 Lester Brown a fost ales membru de onoare din străinătate al Academiei Române.^[1][2]

Operă

• Man, Land and Food (1963)
• Increasing World Food Output (1965)
• Seeds of Change (1970)
• Man and His Environment: Food (with Gail Finsterbusch) (1972)
• World Without Borders (1972)
• In the Human Interest (1974)
• By Bread Alone (with Erik Eckholm) (1974)
• The Twenty-Ninth Day (1978)
• Running on Empty (with Colin Norman & Christopher Flavin) (1979)
• Building a Sustainable Society (1981)
• State of the World (with others) (1984-2001)
• Vital Signs (with others) (1992-2001)
• Eko Kezai Kakume: Environmental Trends Reshaping The Global Economy (1998) (in Japanese)
• Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy (1992)
• Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity (1995)
• Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (1995)
• Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity (1996)
• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (with Gary Gardner and Brian Halweil) (1999)
• Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (2001)
• Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2003)
• Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2004)
• Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006).