Hollander, Jack M.

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Berkeley, CA. Office— Atmospheric Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., MS 73, Berkeley, CA 94720. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of California, Berkeley, professor emeritus of energy and resources.

WRITINGS:

(With C. Michael Lederer and Isadore Perlman) Table of Isotopes, 6th edition, Wiley (New York, NY), 1967.

(Editor, with Gordon T. Goodman and Lars A. Kristoferson) The European Transition from Oil: Societal Impacts and Constraints on Energy Policy, Academic Press (New York, NY), 1981.

(Editor) The Energy-Environment Connection, foreword by Theordore M. Hesburgh, Island Press (Washington, DC), 1992.

The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jack M. Hollander is a professor emeritus in the department of energy and resources at the University of California at Berkeley. His main focus of research is atmospheric science, and he has written extensively on the connection between the use of energy and natural resources. In his The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy, Hollander takes his concerns beyond what he claims are the more traditional concerns of environmentalists—fuel usage and waste, pollution of the atmosphere and the land—and states that on a more global scale, poverty is a major contributor to the state of the environment. He maintains that poverty leads to violence between people and a disregard for the world around them, and that many people cannot afford the technological advances available today to improve upon environmental conditions. In a review for Environment, Joel Darmstadter called Hollander's effort "a plea that we recognize the overriding importance that poverty eradication can play in our legitimate concern with environmental degradation and resource adequacy," and an "insightful, lucid, and passionately argued work." S. Fred Singer, reviewing the book for Regulation, wrote: "Eminently readable, the book makes the argument that poverty leads to pollution and stands in the way of its control. That is not a new argument, but it has seldom been presented so well before."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Environment, January-February, 2004, Joel Darmstadter, review of The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy, p. 42.

Journal of American Planning Association, winter, 2006, Nicholas D. Martyniak, "Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice," p. 129.

Journal of Environmental Education, winter, 2004, John F. Disinger, review of The Real Environmental Crisis, p. 51.

New Scientist, March 1, 2003, Fred Pearce, "It's a Rich Man's World: Fred Pearce Looks at What Money, and the Lack of It, Are Doing to Our World," p. 50.

Population and Development Review, December, 2003, Joel Darmstadter, review of The Real Environmental Crisis, p. 730.

Regulation, fall, 2003, S. Fred Singer, "Poverty and Polution," p. 68.

Tikkun, May-June, 2003, review of The Real Environmental Crisis, p. 96A.