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Earth3000
(gemeinnützige GmbH)
Main Office:
Am Rittergut 8
D-09629 Bieberstein
phone +49 (0)37324 89690
fax +49 (0)37324 89699
info@earth3000.org
Berlin Office:
Alte
Schönhauser Str. 20-22
D-10119 Berlin, Germany
Contact:
Andrea
Koplin
koplin@earth3000.org
President:
Maritta
R. von
Bieberstein Koch-Weser
mkochweser@earth3000.org
Advisory
Board
Maurice
Strong (chair)
Maria de Lourdes Davies
de Freitas (Vice Chair)
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Earth3000
Founder and President Dr. Maritta Koch-Weser
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over
3 decades in international development, as anthropologist
and environmentalist |
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Currently
coordinating the "Amazônia em Transformação
- Historia e Perspectivas" Program at the
Institute for Advanced Studies at Sao Paulo University,
Brazil. |
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field
experience in Latin America, South & East
Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle
East, Eastern Europe & countries of the Former
Soviet Union |
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led
major environmental & social assessment tasks and
investment programs in the agriculture, forestry, mining,
energy, and urban-industrial sectors |
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over
20 years closely associated with the build-up of environmental
& social programs and policies at the World Bank,
where she was responsible for the implementation of
major investment programs, holding successive senior
management positions. |
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served
for two years as Director General of IUCN -The World
Conservation Union, the foremost global environmental
umbrella organization |
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Ph.D.
from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne |
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taught
Anthropology and Latin American Studies at George Washington
University in Washington D.C., and carried out extensive
field work in Brazil. |
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On
June 23, 2010 Maritta Koch-Weser received an Honorary
Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University, in
recognition of "her distinguished career in international
development, as an anthropologist and environmentalist...>
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Amazonia
in Transformation: History and Perspectives A
Project of the Instituto de Estudos
Avançados (IEA) at the University of São
Paulo (USP), Brazil
Download:
iea-amazonia-transformation.pdf
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Earth3000 adheres to the values
set forth in the year 2000 Earth Charter calling for
"respect and care for the community of life, ecological
integrity, social and economic justice and democracy,
nonviolence and peace."
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