Barbara Ward
Barbara Ward (Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth) (1914-1981)
British economist and author, futurist and global planner. Chief interests included sustainable environments, ending poverty, global economies and the development of Third World nations. Pioneer of sustainable planning. Was a Catholic and after being cured of cancer in the 1940s she said it was due to the involvements of Padre Pio. Influenced by RBF. [wikipedia] [google]
town.edu/dept/speccoll/cl211.htm">The Barbara Ward Papers at Georgetown include various correspondences, including more than 700 letters written to her mother. [quotes]
Books and writings
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Spaceship Earth
(1966)
Mix of sustainability and Catholicism.
In the world at large, the millions will be born. The settlements will grow — in squalor and violence, or in work and hope. The whole world — linked by its communications, its airlines, its hijackers and its terrorists — has really only one choice: to become a place worth living in or face ‘the way to dusty death.’ And where else do people live save in their settlements? So where else is the salvation to begin?
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Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
Co-authored with Rene Dubos. Global sustainability and economics.
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Nationalism & Ideology
(W. W. Norton 1966)
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The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
(W. W. Norton 1984)
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The Angry Seventies: The Second Development Decade: A Call to the Church
(Pontifical Commission: Justice and Peace 1970)
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Five Ideas that Change the World
(W. W. Norton 1959)
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Are today’s basic problems religious?, Moral order in an uncertain world
(University Press 1953). The Mott Foundation Lectures. -
It can be done: An approach to the problem of world poverty
(G. Chapman 1965)
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Britain’s interest in Atlantic Union
(Friends of Atlantic Union 1954)
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Democracy, east & west
(Bureau of Current Affairs 1947) (Background handbook)
Articles and references
“The Third World Urban Forum: ‘Spaceship Earth’ spiralling irreversibly into the urban era.“ (2006)
“Following the vision of Barbara Ward” [photo]
For further reading