Career
Foreign most of his life, Harrison has been a journalist and writer on the environment and Third-World development. His best known books are Inside the Third World (1979) (on world poverty) and The Third Revolution (1993) (on population and environment). He also wrote The Greening of Africa (1987) about sustainable development for Africa, and Inside the Inner City (1983) about inner city poverty in East London.
His book on pantheism, Elements of Pantheism, was published by Element Books in 1999.
Harrison has worked for six United Nations agencies and travelled to many Third-World countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He edited the United Nations Population Fund"s "State of World Population," (1990 and 1992) and was editor-in-chief for the Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life"s report "Caring for the Future." He has edited several flagship reports for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
He was the lead author of the American Association for the Advancement of Science"s "Atlas of Population and Environment." From 2005 to 2008 he edited the United Nations Environment Programme"s "United Nations Environment Programme Yearbook" (formerly Geo Yearbook. Harrison was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and has masters degrees in European languages and literature (Cambridge) and political sociology (London School of Economics), and a Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge in Earth Sciences and Geography.
