Barbara Ward
Barbara Mary Ward (23 May 1914 – 31 May 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental questions as well. She was an early advocate of sustainable development before this term became familiar and was well known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policy-makers in the UK, United States and elsewhere.
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... The International Share-out (1938) Turkey (1941) Defence of the West (1942) The West at Bay (1948) Policy for the West (1951) Faith and Freedom (1954) Britain's interest in Atlantic union (1954) Interplay of East and West (1957) India and the West (1961) The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations (1961) The Plan under Pressure (1963) Nationalism and Ideology (1966) - lecture series - Carleton University Spaceship Earth (1966), ISBN 978-0-231-08586-1 ... See also, Survival of Spaceship Earth in 1972 Ward co-wrote and appeared in this documentary film ...
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