Paul Harrison has provided a comprehensive guide to the roots of mass poverty, to the social strains and political instability that turn one Third World country after another into dangerous flashpoints - an ever-growing threat to the world's peace and prosperity. From climate and colonialism, through land hunger, exploding cities and unemployment, to over population, malnutrition, disease and illiteracy, the wealth of facts and analysis is brought home in first hand, often harrowing accounts of the realities of life for poor people and poor communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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I am an environmental writer editor and photographer, and the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement.
I was born in Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom, and schooled at Manchester Grammar School.
After a gap year working with disadvantaged and handicapped children in Germany, I studied European languages and literature at Cambridge, spent a year at the University of Pisa on a Council of Europe scholarship, and did a Masters in political sociology at the London School of Economics.
In 1968-9 I lectured on French language and literature at the University of Ife in Nigeria. Somewhat later in life, in 1995, I got my Ph. D. from Cambridge in Earth Sciences and Geography.
For most of my life, I have been a writer on environment and Third-World development. I trained as a journalist on the Western Mail in Wales, and worked for three years with the social affairs magazine New Society in London.
In 1975 I went freelance and specialized in writing and photography about poverty and environment in developing countries.
My best known books are Inside the Third World (1979) and The Third Revolution (1993) (on population and environment). I also wrote Inside the Inner City (1983) about inner city poverty in East London, and The Greening of Africa (1987) about sustainable development for Africa.
PLEASE NOTE: The Amazon description of the Africa book is completely erroneous due to a mix-up with another title: I did NOT join Museveni's rebel army in 1982, I was NOT a member of Uganda's Constituent Assembly, and I am not yet deceased!
I have edited the flagship reports of UN agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Population Fund and the UN Environment Programme, and traveled to many Third-World countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
In 1988 I received a UN Environment Programme Global 500 award for my writings on environment and in 1992 a Population Institute Global Media Award.
I was editor-in-chief for the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life's report Caring for the Future (1996). In 2001 I was the lead author of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Atlas of Population and Environment. Between 2004 and 2008 I edited the United Nations Environment Programme's annual report (formerly known as Geo Yearbook).
In July 1996 I posted the first page of what became the scientific pantheism site, and in 1997 I started the mailing list that grew into the World Pantheist Movement. My pocket handbook on pantheism, Elements of Pantheism, was published by Element Books in 1999.
I lived for most of my adult life in Hampstead, London, close to Hampstead Heath. Since 2002 I have lived in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains in California. I have two sons, Alex and Sam.
I was born in Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom, and schooled at Manchester Grammar School.
After a gap year working with disadvantaged and handicapped children in Germany, I studied European languages and literature at Cambridge, spent a year at the University of Pisa on a Council of Europe scholarship, and did a Masters in political sociology at the London School of Economics.
In 1968-9 I lectured on French language and literature at the University of Ife in Nigeria. Somewhat later in life, in 1995, I got my Ph. D. from Cambridge in Earth Sciences and Geography.
For most of my life, I have been a writer on environment and Third-World development. I trained as a journalist on the Western Mail in Wales, and worked for three years with the social affairs magazine New Society in London.
In 1975 I went freelance and specialized in writing and photography about poverty and environment in developing countries.
My best known books are Inside the Third World (1979) and The Third Revolution (1993) (on population and environment). I also wrote Inside the Inner City (1983) about inner city poverty in East London, and The Greening of Africa (1987) about sustainable development for Africa.
PLEASE NOTE: The Amazon description of the Africa book is completely erroneous due to a mix-up with another title: I did NOT join Museveni's rebel army in 1982, I was NOT a member of Uganda's Constituent Assembly, and I am not yet deceased!
I have edited the flagship reports of UN agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Population Fund and the UN Environment Programme, and traveled to many Third-World countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
In 1988 I received a UN Environment Programme Global 500 award for my writings on environment and in 1992 a Population Institute Global Media Award.
I was editor-in-chief for the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life's report Caring for the Future (1996). In 2001 I was the lead author of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Atlas of Population and Environment. Between 2004 and 2008 I edited the United Nations Environment Programme's annual report (formerly known as Geo Yearbook).
In July 1996 I posted the first page of what became the scientific pantheism site, and in 1997 I started the mailing list that grew into the World Pantheist Movement. My pocket handbook on pantheism, Elements of Pantheism, was published by Element Books in 1999.
I lived for most of my adult life in Hampstead, London, close to Hampstead Heath. Since 2002 I have lived in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains in California. I have two sons, Alex and Sam.
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One of the most evenhanded reviews of the Third World,
This review is from: Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty; Third Edition (Penguin Politics) (Mass Market Paperback)
For years I have used Paul Harrison's Inside the Third World as a required reading in my Bibical Theology of Poverty class and have found that it opens doors and windows for college students. As one who has lived and worked for decades first in Asia and now in Africa, I appreciate Harrison's evenhanded coverage of the factors leading to poverty. He begins with the physical factors such as soil and climate which are so often overlooked in the more radical critiques. But he does not spare the colonial masters. The book is full of stories and incidents which make it readable. One would hope that a new edition with update statistics might be issued as we enter the year 2000.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A great book,
By Mr Greg Brewer (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty; Third Edition (Penguin Politics) (Mass Market Paperback)
If you ever wonder why the third world is the way it is, read this book. Although it is heavy going in parts, generally I would have to say that this is well written by a person who obviously knows the topic extremely well.
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This review is from: Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty (Penguin politics) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was amazing and challenging. I loved every minute of my reading of it. It gives me a reason to reach out to others in the world and want to give them the same opportunities I have as I get a clearer picture of how the rest of the world lives. Is it possible people are so resilient despite having so much against them? At times the book did leave me feeling hopeless. I especially recommend chapters 1,4,15,18,20. I'm anxious to read his other books. Thanks Paul Harrison for all your work bringing this to us.
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