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Gus (James Gustave) Speth

Dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University; Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.

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"Some Say by Fire: Climate Change and the Next Four Years."

Biography from Who's Who.

Dean Speth's biography at Yale University

Former President and Founder, World Resources Institute

Selected articles:

"Carbon dioxide won the elections," International Herald Tribune, January 16, 2003.

"Perspectives on the Johannesburg Summit," Environment 45, no. 1, Jan/Feb 2003.

"A new green regime: attacking the root causes of global environmental deterioration." (The Road of Johannesburg).  Environment 44, no. 7, Sept 2002.

"Recycling environmentalism: two decades of talk and treaties have not stemmed environmental degradation."  Foreign Policy, July-August 2002.

"The Plight of the Poor: The United States Must Increase Development Aid," Foreign Affairs, May/June 1999.

New deal: development assistance in a global economy. Harvard International Review 21, no. 1, Winter 1998.

Selected Books:

Red Sky at Morning: America and the crisis of the global environment, New Haven: Yale University Press, c2004.

Worlds Apart: globalization and the environment, edited by James Gustave Speth, Washington, DC: Island Press, c2003.

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