Paul Ralph Ehrlich

Paul Ralph Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich
Nascimento	29 de maio de 1932 (91 anos) Filadélfia
Nacionalidade	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Universidade da Pensilvânia, Universidade do Kansas
Prêmios	Prêmio Tyler de Conquista Ambiental (1998), Prêmios Fundação BBVA Fronteiras do Conhecimento (2013)
Instituições	Universidade Stanford
Campo(s)	Biologia

Paul Ralph Ehrlich (Filadélfia, 29 de maio de 1932) é um biólogo estadunidense, mais conhecido por suas advertências sobre as consequências do crescimento populacional e recursos limitados. É Professor Bing de Estudos Populacionais do Departmento de Biologia da Universidade Stanford e presidente do Centro Stanford de Biologia da Conservação.

Ehrlich c. 2010

Ehrlich em 2008

Prêmios e honrarias

• 1990 Prêmio Crafoord
• 1998 Prêmio Tyler de Conquista Ambiental
• 1999 Prêmio Planeta Azul
• 2009 Prêmio Ramon Margalef de Ecologia
• 2013 Prêmios Fundação BBVA Fronteiras do Conhecimento

Obras

Livros

• How to Know the Butterflies (1960)
• Process of Evolution (1963)
• Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution (1964)
• The Population Bomb (1968)
• Population, Resources, Environments: Issues in Human Ecology (1970)
• How to Be a Survivor (1971)
• Man and the Ecosphere: Readings from Scientific American (1971)
• Population, Resources, Environments: Issues in Human Ecology Second Edition (1972)
• Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions (1973)
• Introductory Biology (1973)
• The End of Affluence (1975)
• Biology and Society (1976)
• Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (1978)
• The Race Bomb (1978)
• Extinction (1981)
• The Golden Door: International Migration, Mexico, and the United States (1981)
• The Machinery of Nature: The Living World Around Us and How it Works (1986)
• The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984, with Carl Sagan, Donald Kennedy, and Walter Orr Roberts)
• Earth (1987, co-authored with Anne Ehrlich)
• Science of Ecology (1987, with Joan Roughgarden)
• The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament (1988)
• The Birder's Handbook: A field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (1988, with David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye)
• New World, New Mind: Moving Towards Conscious Evolution (1988, co-authored with Robert Ornstein)
• The Population Explosion (1990, with Anne Ehrlich)
• Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis (1991, co-authored with Anne Ehrlich)
• Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico (1992, with David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye)
• The Stork and the Plow : The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (1995, with Anne Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily)
• A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma (1997)
• Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (1998, with Anne Ehrlich)
• Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank (2001, with Andrew Beattie)
• Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect (2002)
• One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (2004, with Anne Ehrlich)
• On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology (2004, edited volume, co-edited with Ilkka Hanski)
• The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2008, with Anne Ehrlich)
• Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future (2010, with Robert E. Ornstein)
• Hope on Earth: A Conversation (2014, co-authored with Michael Charles Tobias) ISBN 978-0-226-11368-5

Artigos

• Ehrlich, P. R. (2010). «The MAHB, the Culture Gap, and Some Really Inconvenient Truths». PLoS Biology. 8 (4): e1000330. PMC 2850377. PMID 20386722. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000330 
• Ceballos, Gerardo; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; García, Andrés; Pringle, Robert M.; Palmer, Todd M. (2015). «Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction». Science Advances. 1 (5): e1400253. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1400253 

Leitura adicional

• Robertson, Thomas. (2012) The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism, Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey. ISBN 0813552729.

Ligações externas

• Paul R. Ehrlich Papers
• Paul R. Ehrlich's faculty web page at Stanford University
• Biographical page at the International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri, St. Louis
• Paul Ralph Ehrlich. no IMDb.
• "The Population Bomb Revisited", Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, 2009
• Several online Paul Ehrlich interviews
• "Plowboy Interview" of Paul Ehrlich, 1974 from The Mother Earth News
• Paul R. Ehrlich and the prophets of doom A look at Ehrlich's treatment of exponential growth.
• Ehrlich quotes
• Video of discussion with/interview of Ehrlich by Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
• Video: The Dominant Animal 2008-06-27
• Paul Ehrlich talks about Evolution at Commonwealth Club, April 2009
• Alternative Radio Ehrlich archive, including "Distress Signals from Earth" (recorded 2/17/2014)
• Paul Ehrlich, a prophet of global population doom who is gloomier than ever. The Guardian. October 2011.