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Peter Berg (1937-2011) was a social revolutionary thinker,
writer, ecologist, environmental activist and founder of Planet Drum Foundation.
He defined Bioregionalism as “proactive, and based on forming a harmony between
human culture and the natural environment, rather than being protest-based like
the original environmental movement. Also, while classical environmentalists
saw human industry as the enemy of nature and nature as a victim needing to be
saved; bioregionalists see humanity and its culture as a part of nature,
focusing on building a positive, sustainable relationship with the environment,
rather than a focus on preserving and segregating the wilderness from the world
of humanity".[1]
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CRED: CRED, Center for Research on the
Epidemiology of Disasters
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D.W. Winnicott (1896–1971) was an English
pediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of
object relations theory. He was a leading member of the British Independent
Group (psychoanalysis) of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a close
associate of Marion Milner. He is best known for his ideas on the true
self and false self, and the transitional object. He wrote several books,
including Playing and Reality
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John Embree was
an anthropologist. His study culminated in the seminal book Suye Mura: A
Japanese Village, published in 1939 by the University of Chicago Press. He served as Professor of Anthropology at
the University of Hawaii in 1937–41 and during World War II in 1943–45. He was
also Associate Professor of Anthropology and head of the Japanese area studies
of the Civil Affairs Training School for the Far East which the War Department
set up at the University of Chicago for the training of military government
officers for Japan and the Occupied Areas. He was Associate Professor of
Sociology and Research Associate of Anthropology at Yale from 1948 to 1950
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Nancy Fraser
(Baltimore, 20 May 1947) is an American critical theorist. She is a noted feminist thinker concerned
with conceptions of justice, she argues that justice is a complex concept which
must be understood from the standpoint of three separate yet interrelated
dimensions: distribution (of resources), recognition (of the varying
contributions of different groups), and representation (linguistic).
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Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September
1980) was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher
known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive
development and epistemological view are together called "genetic
epistemology".
Piaget placed great importance on the education of children.
As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934
that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible
collapse, whether violent, or gradual."
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James Marston Fitch
(1909–2000) was an architect and a Preservationist, one of the founders of
the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia
University in 1964. After leaving the Columbia faculty, he became director of
historic preservation at the private architecture and planning firm, Beyer
Blinder Belle. He led the fight that prevented the construction of an
expressway through Soho, to save the buildings at what is now the South Street
Seaport, and, in the 1990s, he supervised the renovation of Grand Central
Terminal.
The activist Jane Jacobs considered that Fitch "was the
principal character in making the preservation of historic buildings practical
and feasible and popular."
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Lawrence Wylies, Anthropologist
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Yi-Fu Tuan (born 5 December 1930) is a
Chinese-American geographer famous for pioneering the field of human geography
and merging it with philosophy, art, psychology, and religion. This
amalgamation has formed what is known as humanist geography.
