Author: Lester R. Brown
Lester R. Brown is founder, president, and a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute and is best known for his pioneering work on the concept of environmentally sustainable development. This article is based on Worldwatch Paper 143, ‘Beyond Malthus: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem,’ September 1998, by Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil.