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Ruth S. DeFries

Ruth DeFries discusses how a healthy environment can lead to a peaceful world.
Read the full interview and learn more about how the ideas of Ruth DeFries relate to OEF's work at: https://oneearthfuture.org/research/blogs/guest/peace-21st-century-ruth-defries
https://oefresearch.org/think-peace/ruth-defries-peace-and-environment
https://oneearthfuture.org/videos/peace-21st-century-ruth-defries
Videography: Jean-Pierre Larroque
Production Coordination: Andrea Jovanovic

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Ruth S. DeFries (born October 20, 1956) is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysical and biogeochemical processes. She was one of 24 recipients of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006. (From Wikipedia)

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Associated author:

Silver, Cheryl Simon

Books by Ruth S. DeFries:

DeFries, Ruth S.: One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990), also by Cheryl Simon Silver (page images with commentary at NAP)

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